US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL on June 10 for "Systems and methods for automatic treatment planning and optimization" (Finnish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,930, issued on June 10, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for automatic treatment planning and optimization" was invented by Jarkko Peltola (Tuusula, Finland), Pauli Suhonen (Helsinki), Christopher Boylan (Helsinki), Stephen Thompson (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Esa Kuusela (Helsinki).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for the automatic generation and optimization of radiation therapy treatment plans, and systems and methods for the automatic generation and optimization of an adapted plan in an adaptive radiation therapy workflow."

The patent was filed on...