US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE on May 13 for "Radiation therapy system and method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,196, issued on May 13, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Radiation therapy system and method" was invented by Cheng Ni (Shanghai), Peng Wang (Shanghai) and Xing'en Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a radiation therapy system. The radiation therapy system may comprise a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus configured to acquire MRI data with respect to a region of interest (ROI) of a subject, the MRI apparatus including a magnetic body; and a radiation therapy apparatus configured to apply a radiation beam to at least one portion of the ROI. T...