US Patent Issued to ViewRay Systems on Nov. 18 for "Radiation therapy systems and methods" (American, Bulgarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,384, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ViewRay Systems Inc. (Denver).

"Radiation therapy systems and methods" was invented by Iwan Kawrykow (Sofia, Bulgaria), Thomas Chmielewski (Aurora, Ohio) and James F. Dempsey (Pebble Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a diagnostic-quality CT scanner for imaging a patient, the diagnostic-quality CT scanner having an imaging isocenter and a radiation therapy device positioned adjacent the diagnostic-quality CT scanner, the radiation therapy device including a gantry carrying a radiation therapy beam source and having a radiation therapy isocenter separate from the ima...