ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,805, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).
"Radiotherapy device comprising a tilting mechanism" was invented by Kristian Wiberg (Crawley, Great Britain), Erik Carlander (Crawley, Great Britain), Markus Nyman (Crawley, Great Britain) and Henrik Alexis (Crawley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiotherapy device can include a tilting apparatus for tilting a source of radiation, the tilting apparatus comprising: a plurality of guide rails comprising a first guide rail and a second guide rail and a plurality of carriages comprising a first carriage and a second carriage. The first carria...