US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on June 17 for "Particle therapy system, irradiation control apparatus, and irradiation control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,989, issued on June 17, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Particle therapy system, irradiation control apparatus, and irradiation control method" was invented by Takuto Miyoshi (Tokyo), Takuya Nomura (Tokyo), Yuki Ito (Tokyo), Takashi Toyoda (Tokyo) and Takahiro Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dose monitor measures a dose of a beam. The position monitor measures the beam size of the beam. The irradiation control apparatus calculates the measurement characteristic of the dose monitor based on the dose and the beam size of the beam, and controls the irradiation of the patient with the beam based on the me...