US Patent Issued to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS on July 1 for "Quality assurance process for radiation therapy treatment planning" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,565, issued on July 1, was assigned to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Quality assurance process for radiation therapy treatment planning" was invented by Charles Adelsheim (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method enables testing and evaluation of an expert human reviewer or an artificial intelligence (AI) error detection engine associated with a radiotherapy treatment planning process. Intentional errors are introduced into the output of a software module or AI engine that performs a certain step in the radiotherapy treatment planning process. The efficacy of the human or AI reviewer in detecting ...