ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,987, issued on June 17, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Systems and methods for patient positioning during radiotherapy" was invented by Susu Yan (Boston), Thomas Bortfeld (Cambridge, Mass.), Daniela Rus (Weston, Mass.), Thomas Buchner (Straubing, Germany), Jay Flanz (North Andover, Mass.) and Shuguang Li (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for patient positioning during radiotherapy. The system can include a patient support structure configured to receive a patient during a radiotherapy process using a radiotherapy sou...