US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers International on Aug. 12 for "Energy treatment plan quality assurance dose rate metric apparatus and method" (Belgian, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,764, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers International AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Energy treatment plan quality assurance dose rate metric apparatus and method" was invented by Miriam Krieger (Halle, Germany), Sylvie Spiessens (Desselgem, Belgium) and Michael Matthew Folkerts (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit optimizes an energy treatment plan (such as, but not limited to, a Flash energy treatment plan) to therapeutically treat a given patient's treatment volume with energy to provide an optimized energy treatment plan. The control circuit determines at least one delivered d...