ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,570, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Radiation therapy system and method" was invented by Cheng Ni (Shanghai), Xingen Yu (Shanghai), Yanfang Liu (Shanghai), Jingjie Zhou (Shanghai), Jianfeng Liu (Shanghai), Li Wang (Shanghai), Peng Wang (Shanghai) and Yangyang Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system and a method. The system may include a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus configured to acquire MRI data with respect to a region of interest (ROI) and a therapeutic apparatus configured to apply therapeutic radiation to a...