ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,379, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Elekta Inc. (Atlanta).
"Method and system for treatment planning" was invented by Peter Voet (Atlanta), Chunhua Men (Atlanta) and Spencer Marshall (Brandon, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method may be provided to aid in radiation treatment planning, the method comprising: receiving treatment plan parameters including a reference dose value for a target region of a patient and a defined dose value for a surrounding region; determining whether the defined dose value for the surrounding region exceeds a threshold; and responsive to determining that the defined dose value...