ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,896, issued on April 8, was assigned to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Radiotherapy methods, systems, and workflow-oriented graphical user interfaces" was invented by Filip Vojan (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Brian Spatola (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are radiotherapy methods and systems that can display a workflow-oriented graphical user interface(s). A method comprises presenting a plurality of pages for display, each corresponding to a stage of a radiotherapy treatment for a patient; in response to receiving an indication that a surface of a patient is aligned, retrieving, from a ...