ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,098, issued on March 25, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Signal transmitter for a radiotherapy device" was invented by John Allen (West, Great Britain) and Adrian Smith (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless signal transmitter is provided for a radiotherapy device, said radiotherapy device being configured to provide radiation to a subject via a source of radiation, and further being configured to output a non-continuous beam of radiation, wherein said non-continuous beam of radiation has a first, time-related property associated therewith. The wireless signal transmitter is configur...