US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL, VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS PARTICLE THERAPY on May 27 for "Flash therapy treatment planning and oncology information system having dose rate prescription and dose rate mapping" (American, Belgian, Finnish, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,198, issued on May 27, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland) and VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS PARTICLE THERAPY GMBH & Co. KG (Troisdorf, Germany).

"Flash therapy treatment planning and oncology information system having dose rate prescription and dose rate mapping" was invented by Christel Smith (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Timo Koponen (Espoo, Finland), Reynald Vanderstraeten (Uccle, Belgium), Anthony Magliari (Newark, Ill.), Eric Abel (San Jose, Calif.), Jessica Perez (Geneva), Michael Folkerts (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Deepak Khuntia (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing syst...