ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,366, issued on April 22, was assigned to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.) and SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Radioablation treatment systems and methods" was invented by Leigh Scott Johnson (Chicago), Jonas Michael Honegger (Zurich), Patrik Niklaus Kunz (Baden, Switzerland), Stefan Georg Scheib (Waedenswil, Switzerland), Francesca Attanasi (Baar, Switzerland) and Andrea Morgan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cardiac radioablation treatment planning are disclosed. In some examples, a computing device receives a first signal identifying a first event with...