US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL on June 10 for "Clinical goal treatment planning and optimization" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,620, issued on June 10, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Clinical goal treatment planning and optimization" was invented by Esa Kuusela (Espoo, Finland) and Lauri Halko (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for developing an intensity-modulated radiation therapy treatment plan includes a memory that stores machine instructions and a processor that executes the machine instructions to receive a clinical goal associated with the treatment plan as a user input. The processor further executes the machine instructions to determine a plan objective based on the clinical goal...