ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,705, issued on May 6, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Montreal).

"Real-time motion monitoring using deep learning" was invented by Philip P. Novosad (Montreal) and Silvain Beriault (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods may be used for estimating instantaneous patient motion (a patient state). The patient state may be estimated based on a 3D reference volume and a stream of images, for example from an image acquisition device. The stream of images may be received in real-time, for example during a radiation therapy treatment. An example method may include encoding the 3D reference volume using a 3D encoder...