ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,286, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS PARTICLE THERAPY GMBH & Co. KG (Troisdorf, Germany).
"Particle therapy closed-loop feedback spot-wise beam current control systems and methods" was invented by Jay Steele (Milpitas, Calif.) and Manuel Schedler (Bonn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for closed-loop feedback beam control in particle therapy delivery system can include receiving treatment plan beam parameters, receiving a determined output beam current of a present spot, generating an adjusted source beam current set point based on the treatment plan beam parameters and the determined outpu...