US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers International on Jan. 13 for "Radiation treatment apparatus and method" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,569, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers International AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Radiation treatment apparatus and method" was invented by Daniel Valenzuela (Helsinki), Jarkko Peltola (Tuusula, Finland), Esa Kuusela (Espoo, Finland) and Tuomas Tallinen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit accesses information regarding a given patient. That information may include, for example, segmentation information that depicts at least one treatment volume and at least one organ-at-risk. The control circuit then defines a plurality of dose-calculation sectors for the given patient as a functi...