ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,633, issued on June 3, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Switzerland).

"Determining uncertainty in radiation therapy delivered dose accumulation" was invented by Tomasz Morgas (Basel, Switzerland), Tobias Gass (Vogelsang AG, Switzerland), Thomas Coradi (Lenzburg, Switzerland), Fernando Franco (Zurich) and Michael Waschbuesch (Rheinfelden, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of generating dose information for a region of patient anatomy includes determining a first set of dose values for a first three-dimensional (3D) image of the region, wherein each value in the first set of d...