ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,802, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).
"Radiotherapy treatment planning" was invented by Adrain Smith (Crawley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of calculating delivery values for delivering an arc-segment between two control points of a treatment plan, the treatment plan specifying MLC leaf position at each control point. The method comprises: calculating the arc-segment delivery time for each of a plurality of components using default delivery values, wherein one of the components is MLC leaf movement; selecting the component dictating the longest arc-s...