ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,378, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Raysearch Laboratories AB (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method, computer program product and computer system for radiotherapy planning, and radiotherapy delivery system" was invented by Erik Traneus (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiotherapy treatment planning method for achieving a FLASH radiotherapy treatment plan involves optimizing the plan using an optimization problem that has been designed to maximize the part of the irradiation that will be delivered under FLASH conditions, in particular to an organ at risk, to minimize the damage to the organ at risk."

The patent was filed ...