ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,557, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).
"Radiotherapy devices and access authorisation" was invented by Colin Winfield (Crawley, Great Britain), Marco Massai (Crawley, Great Britain), Neil Pritchard (Crawley, Great Britain) and Paul Boxall (Crawley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining whether a radiotherapy device configured to provide therapeutic radiation to a patient should be authorised for use. The device comprises a plurality of components, each component of the plurality of components being coupled with at least one identifier configured to provide data ide...