US Patent Issued to University Of Maryland, Baltimore, The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, Broncus Medical on July 29 for "System and method for radiation therapy using spatial-functional mapping and dose sensitivity of branching structures and functional sub-volumes" (Maryland, Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,379, issued on July 29, was assigned to University Of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore), The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) and Broncus Medical Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for radiation therapy using spatial-functional mapping and dose sensitivity of branching structures and functional sub-volumes" was invented by Amit Sawant (Columbia, Md.), Robert Timmerman (Westlake, Texas), Yulong Yan (Plano, Texas), Henky Wibowo (San Jose, Calif.), Esther Vicente (Baltimore) and Arezoo Modiri (Rosedale, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for radiation therapy using function...