US Patent Issued to Sun Nuclear on Feb. 10 for "Machine-learning-driven auto-planning for radiation treatment" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,592, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sun Nuclear Corp. (Atlanta).

"Machine-learning-driven auto-planning for radiation treatment" was invented by Julie Shade (Baltimore), Pranav Lakshminarayanan (Baltimore), Peter Hoban (Crockernwell, Great Britain) and Praveen Sinha (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for machine-learning-based prediction of a dose-volume histogram for radiotherapy treatment planning. The method includes receiving prescription information and a plan geometry. The plan geometry includes a planning target volume and an organ at risk. The method also includes extracting a plurality of input...