US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers International on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for placement of energy layers and spots of proton beams in target regions" (Finnish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,378, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers International AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for placement of energy layers and spots of proton beams in target regions" was invented by Roni Hytonen (Espoo, Finland) and Pierre Lansonneur (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for proton therapy treatment planning can include a treatment planning system determining positions of a plurality of energy layers across a dimension of a planning target volume (PTV) along a proton field direction, such that each pair of consecutive energy layers are spaced by a distance that is proport...