US Patent Issued to Raysearch Laboratories on May 20 for "System and method for automated radiotherapy treatment planning" (Swedish, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,714, issued on May 20, was assigned to Raysearch Laboratories AB (publ) (Stockholm).

"System and method for automated radiotherapy treatment planning" was invented by Anton Finnson (Farsta, Sweden), Johan Sundstrom (Bromma, Sweden), Albin Fredriksson (Stockholm), Kjell Eriksson (Balsta, Sweden) and Cecilia Batinelli (Copenhagen V, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a treatment planning method for generating a treatment plan for radiation therapy where a set of targets (18a-18q) are to be treated, the method using a multi-leaf collimator (MLC) (4) for shaping an arc beam (24), a gantry (2) for holding the MLC, ...