US Patent Issued to Raysearch Laboratories on May 13 for "Computer-implemented method for radiotherapy treatment planning, computer program product and computer system for performing the method" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,189, issued on May 13, was assigned to Raysearch Laboratories AB (publ) (Stockholm).

"Computer-implemented method for radiotherapy treatment planning, computer program product and computer system for performing the method" was invented by Bjorn Andersson (Uppsala, Sweden), Erik Engwall (Hagersten, Sweden), Albin Fredriksson (Stockholm) and Kjell Eriksson (Balsta, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-based method of optimizing a radiotherapy treatment plan for a patient is proposed, wherein a complete treatment comprising both external beam therapy and brachytherapy is optimized in one procedure using an optimization probl...