US Patent Issued to Elekta on Sept. 9 for "Imaging system for a radiotherapy device" (British, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,342, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Imaging system for a radiotherapy device" was invented by Markus Eriksson (Crawley, Great Britain), Per Carlsson (Gustavsberg, Sweden) and Stefan Langemark (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a radiotherapy device comprising a source of therapeutic radiation and an imaging system, the imaging system comprising a source of imaging radiation and a detector. The imaging system is switchable between a first configuration and a second configuration wherein, in the first configuration, the imaging system is configured to e...