US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE on April 8 for "Systems and methods for adjusting multi-leaf collimator" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,897, issued on April 8, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for adjusting multi-leaf collimator" was invented by Johannes Stahl (Houston) and Walter Arturo Aguilar (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides systems and methods for adjusting a multi-leaf collimator (MLC). The MLC includes a plurality of cross-layer leaf pairs, each cross-layer leaf pair of the plurality of cross-layer leaf pairs includes a first leaf located in a first layer of leaves and a second leaf opposingly located in a second layer of leaves. For at least one cross-layer leaf pair, an...