US Patent Issued to LEO CANCER CARE on July 22 for "Patient positioning apparatus" (British, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,445, issued on July 22, was assigned to LEO CANCER CARE INC. (Middleton, Wis.).

"Patient positioning apparatus" was invented by Ilana Feain (New South Wales, Australia), Stephen Towe (East Sussex, Great Britain) and Mark Strangeman (West Sussex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a patient positioning assembly for orientating a patient with respect to a radiation source. The patient positioning assembly includes a translatable member movable in a vertical direction between a vertically downwards first position and a vertically upwards second position. The patient positioning assembly further includes a patient ...