US Patent Issued to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/MCGILL UNIVERSITY on June 3 for "Radiation shields for brachytherapy" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,629, issued on June 3, was assigned to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal).

"Radiation shields for brachytherapy" was invented by Shirin Abbasi Enger (Montreal), Marc Morcos (Baltimore), Gabriel Famulari (Montreal) and Tristan Shoemaker (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shield assembly for an intensity modulated brachytherapy (IMBT) system, has: a tubular applicator engageable to a rotating mechanism of the IMBT system, the tubular applicator having a peripheral wall enclosing an internal cavity extending longitudinally along a central axis; a radiation shield extending axial...