US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL on Dec. 9 for "Spot positioning based on minimum monitor unit (MU) constraint and optimization objectives for a radiation therapy system" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,376, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Spot positioning based on minimum monitor unit (MU) constraint and optimization objectives for a radiation therapy system" was invented by Pierre Lansonneur (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of determining spot positioning for each field associated with a planning target volume (TV) is disclosed. The method includes accessing said dose volume constraints and information associated with a TV structure and associated organs at risk (OAR) structure. The method further includes determining a d...