US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Heavy Industries on May 20 for "Treatment preparation apparatus comprising a peripheral simulator and treatment equipment for a boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT)" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,713, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Treatment preparation apparatus comprising a peripheral simulator and treatment equipment for a boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT)" was invented by Shinya Kusuoka (Ehime, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment preparation apparatus includes a peripheral simulator that simulates a peripheral portion of the object after the object is disposed in the irradiation chamber, when fixing the relative position of the object to the irradiation target in the preparation chamber. Therefore, when positioning the patient in the preparation chamber, by using...