ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,528, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Elekta Inc. (Atlanta).
"System and method for radiation treatment planning" was invented by Peter Voet (Atlanta), Chunhua Men (Atlanta), Randy Larson (Atlanta) and Spencer Marshall (Brandon, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for radiation treatment planning, the method comprising: receiving a reference dose value, wherein the reference dose value is a defined maximum radiation dose within a first region for radiation treatment in a patient; applying an optimization procedure to a treatment plan for radiation treatment of the patient, wherein the optimization proc...