US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers International on Oct. 28 for "Detecting anomalous dose volume histogram information" (Finnish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,866, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers International AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Detecting anomalous dose volume histogram information" was invented by Mikko Hakala (Rajamaki, Finland), Esa Kuusela (Espoo, Finland), Elena Czeizler (Helsinki), Shahab Basiri (Siuntio, Finland), Maria Cordero Marcos (Espoo, Finland), Hannu Laaksonen (Espoo, Finland) and Alexander E. Maslowski (Peachtree City, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit accesses a radiation treatment plan for a given patient. The control circuit then generates dose volume histogram information as a function of the radiation treatment pl...