US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on Feb. 18 for "Radiation therapy system and method of operating radiation therapy apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,658, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radiation therapy system and method of operating radiation therapy apparatus" was invented by Shuji Kaneko (Tokyo) and Kunio Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is to provide a radiation therapy system capable of widening a radiation irradiation range to a patient without increasing a burden on a structure. The radiation therapy system includes: a radiation source; a rotation mechanism that supports the radiation source and rotates the radiation source around an isocenter; a couch that places a therapy target site of a patient at the i...