ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,530, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for scintillation camera-based motion tracking in radiotherapy" was invented by Jonathan Maltz (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a system for EGRT. The system may include a radiotherapy device for treating a subject. The radiotherapy device may include a scintillation camera that is directed at an ROI of the subject. The subject may be injected with a radioactive tracer or implanted with a radioactive marker before treatment. The ROI may undergo a physiological motion during the treatment....