US Patent Issued to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Oct. 21 for "Radiation therapy treatment planning and radiation therapy treatment including mu distribution visualization" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,356, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Radiation therapy treatment planning and radiation therapy treatment including mu distribution visualization" was invented by Pierre Lansonneur (Lyons, France) and Michael Folkerts (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes at least one processor configured to execute computer executable instructions to cause the system to: generate or obtain a first radiation treatment plan for a treatment target in a patient, the first radiation treatment plan prescribing beam characteristics for a plurality of beamlets or spots in th...