ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,101, issued on May 20, was assigned to THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Deep learning based dosed prediction for treatment planning and quality assurance in radiation therapy" was invented by Dan Nguyen (Dallas) and Steve Jiang (Southlake, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for generating a treatment plan are disclosed herein. A computing system receives a plurality of dose volume histograms for a plurality of patients and a plurality of volumetric dose distributions corresponding to the plurality of dose volume histograms. The computing system generates a volumetric dose ...