ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,852, issued on March 4, was assigned to Steven Thomas et al. (Vancouver, Canada).
"Motion synchronized arc radiotherapy" was invented by Steven Thomas (Vancouver, Canada), Kirpal Kohli (Surrey, Canada) and Justin Jeremy Jeun-Ming Poon (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for planning and/or delivering radiation treatment and controlling a radiation delivery system are described. Apparatus for delivering radiation treatment includes a radiation source, a drive connected to move the radiation source along a trajectory, a stored radiation treatment plan specifying a plurality of beam ON segments and be...