ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,093, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).
"Radiotherapy apparatus" was invented by Clifford William Perkins (Crawley, Great Britain), Trevor Burke (Crawley, Great Britain), Rejean Leblanc (Crawley, Great Britain) and Ruud Verhaegh (Crawley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a radiotherapy apparatus comprising a gantry rotatable about a gantry rotation axis, and a plurality of rotatable rollers positioned underneath the gantry and configured to support the gantry. A first rotatable roller of the plurality of rotatable rollers is configured to rotate about a first axl...