ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,523, issued on July 8, was assigned to ViewRay Systems Inc. (Denver).
"MRI guided radiotherapy" was invented by James F. Dempsey (Pebble Beach, Calif.) and Iwan Kawrykow (Sofia, Bulgaria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer software relating to gating using non-parallel imaging planes, determining accumulated dose to tissues during radiotherapy with actual beam delivery information, stopping/adjusting/reoptimizing therapy based on such accumulated doses and the generation and use of prognostic motion models and prognostic-motion adapted radiation treatment plans are disclosed."
The patent was filed on Oct. 19...