US Patent Issued to Raysearch Laboratories on April 29 for "Robust treatment planning or plan evaluation" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,629, issued on April 29, was assigned to Raysearch Laboratories AB (publ) (Stockholm).

"Robust treatment planning or plan evaluation" was invented by Martin Janson (Enskededalen, Sweden) and Agnes Angerud (Jarfalla, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In cases where material properties of a structure within or outside a patient receiving radiotherapy treatment, robust planning can be used, based on different scenarios with different material property values using a material override function present in the treatment planning system.A computer-based method of generating a radiotherapy treatment plan for a patient, based on an image o...