US Patent Issued to RefleXion Medical on May 20 for "Graphical representation of radiation therapy" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,718, issued on May 20, was assigned to RefleXion Medical Inc. (Hayward, Calif.).

"Graphical representation of radiation therapy" was invented by Michael Kirk Owens (San Francisco), Peter Demetri Olcott (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Rostem Bassalow (Lacey, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods for monitoring the radiation delivery during a radiotherapy delivery session and providing a graphical representation of radiation delivery to an operator (e.g., a clinician, a medical physicist, a radiation therapy technologist). The graphics are updated in real-time, as radiation data is collected by the radiotherapy syst...