US Patent Issued to ViewRay Systems on Nov. 25 for "Systems, methods and computer software for optimized radiation therapy" (American, Bulgarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,803, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ViewRay Systems Inc. (Denver).

"Systems, methods and computer software for optimized radiation therapy" 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 are disclosed that allow the automatic recalling of imaging parameters from computer memory for controlling an MRI system to perform treatment-day scans of a patient on a treatment couch in a radiotherapy system, prior to treatment. The treatment-day scans can be automatically initialized and the MRI system can then be controlled to ...