ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,869, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ViewRay Systems Inc. (Oakwood Village, Ohio).

"Systems, methods and software for magnetic resonance image 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 are disclosed that can include receiving a treatment prescription for a patient, obtaining a diagnosis-driven magnetic resonance imaging guided radiotherapy treatment and planning workflow (MRgRT&P workflow) associated with the treatment prescription from a workflow library, the diagnosis-driven MRgRT&P workflo...