ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,630, issued on April 29, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for controlling electron beam in radiotherapy" was invented by Feichao Fu (Shanghai), Peng Wang (Shanghai), Shoubo He (Shanghai), Peng Cheng (Shanghai) and Cheng Ni (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a beam control device for radiotherapy is provided. The beam control device may include an electron beam generator configured to emit an electron beam for radiotherapy toward a subject in a first direction. The beam control device may further include a first deflectio...