US Patent Issued to ION BEAM APPLICATIONS on Oct. 14 for "Off line quality control of a beam shaping device for radiation therapy" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,780, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ION BEAM APPLICATIONS (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

"Off line quality control of a beam shaping device for radiation therapy" was invented by Lucian Hotoiu (Brussels), Rudi Labarbe (Boncelles, Belgium), Francois Vander Stappen (Brussels), Julia Pakela (Philadelphia), Boonkeng Kevin Teo (Wayne, Pa.) and Wei Zou (Skillman, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assessing a quality of a beam shaping device includes, establishing with a treatment planning system (TPS) the planned device design of the beam shaping device, manufacturing the beam shaping device according to the planned device...