US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL on Aug. 19 for "System and method for proton therapy treatment planning with proton energy and spot optimization" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,662, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method for proton therapy treatment planning with proton energy and spot optimization" was invented by Timo Koponen (Espoo, Finland) and Perttu Niemela (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention disclose methods and systems for proton therapy planning that includes proton energy and spot optimization that discretizes layers and spots using an optimization algorithm to produce an optimal distribution of layer energies and spots with a relatively smooth dose distribution. The tre...