ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,929, issued on June 10, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Trajectory optimization using dose estimation and conflict detection" was invented by Tuomas Tallinen (Espoo, Finland), Daniel Valenzuela (Helsinki) and Janne Nord (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for radiation treatment planning can include a computing system determining an estimate of a radiation dose distribution within an anatomical region of a patient, and determining a cost matrix representing an objective function, using the estimate of the radiation dose distribution. The computing syste...