ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,577, issued on March 18, was assigned to Elekta AB (publ) (Stockholm).
"Geometry-based real-time adaptive radiotherapy" was invented by Stella Lucie Riad (Sundbyberg, Sweden), David Andreas Tilly (Uppsala, Sweden), Peter Kimstrand (Uppsala, Sweden), Klas Marcks von Wurtemberg (Stockholm) and Nina Terese Tilly (Uppsala, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for adjusting radiotherapy treatment for a patient in real time are provided. The techniques include retrieving a reference plan that includes three-dimensional (3D) volume representation of information for the patient and a plurality of radiotherapy beam delivery segme...