US Patent Issued to Elekta on July 8 for "Radiotherapy apparatus for delivering radiation to a subject" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,522, issued on July 8, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Radiotherapy apparatus for delivering radiation to a subject" was invented by Henrik Alexis (Crawley, Great Britain) and Kristian Wiberg (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a radiotherapy apparatus for delivering radiation to a subject. The apparatus comprises a source of radiation configured to rotate about an isocenter and emit radiation in a radiation plane containing said isocentre. The apparatus also comprises a subject support surface configured such that a portion of the subject support surface can...