US Patent Issued to Elekta on Sept. 23 for "Characterizing physical properties of an attenuating element in a radiotherapy device" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,115, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Characterizing physical properties of an attenuating element in a radiotherapy device" was invented by Joshua Freedman (Crawley, Great Britain), David Roberts (Crawley, Great Britain) and Stefan Pencea (Decatur, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of characterising physical properties of an attenuating element in a radiotherapy device having a radiotherapy radiation source and a radiotherapy radiation detector on respective sides of the attenuating element. The method comprises obtaining an average detected radiotherapy radiat...