US Patent Issued to LEO CANCER CARE on July 1 for "Patient positioning system" (British, Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,184, issued on July 1, was assigned to LEO CANCER CARE INC. (Middleton, Wis.).

"Patient positioning system" was invented by Mark Strangeman (West Sussex, Great Britain), Ralf Spriestersbach (Athens, Greece), Paul Dixon (Surrey, Great Britain), Tony Westwood (East Sussex, Great Britain), Darren Forcey (Brighton, Great Britain) and Stephen Towe (East Sussex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is technology relating to medical imaging and radiation therapy and particularly, but not exclusively, to devices, methods, and systems for positioning a patient with respect to a radiation source to image the patient and/...