US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL on Nov. 11 for "Systems, methods and devices for automated target volume generation" (Swiss, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,785, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems, methods and devices for automated target volume generation" was invented by Benjamin Haas (Brittnau, Switzerland), Marco Lessard (Trois Rivieres, Canada), Jonas Honegger (Zurich), Thomas Coradi (Lenzburg, Switzerland), Tobias Gass (Vogelsang AG, Switzerland) and Tomasz Morgas (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method for automatically generating structures, such as target volumes, in a treatment image using structure-guided deformation to propagate the structures from a planning image onto the s...