US Patent Issued to ViewRay Systems on Oct. 7 for "Magnetic resonance volumetric imaging" (Bulgarian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,502, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ViewRay Systems Inc. (Denver).

"Magnetic resonance volumetric imaging" was invented by Iwan Kawrykow (Sofia, Bulgaria), Georgi Gerganov (Sofia, Bulgaria) and James F. Dempsey (Pebble Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reference data relating to a portion of a patient anatomy during patient motion can be acquired from a magnetic resonance imaging system (MRI) to develop a patient motion library. During a time of interest, tracking data is acquired that can be related to the reference data. Partial volumetric data is acquired during the time of interest and at approximately the same time ...