US Patent Issued to Zap Surgical Systems on March 11 for "Inverse planning device and methods for radiation treatment" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,192, issued on March 11, was assigned to Zap Surgical Systems Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Inverse planning device and methods for radiation treatment" was invented by Radhika Mohan Bodduluri (Palo Alto, Calif.), Thibaut Loysel (Redwood City, Calif.), Achim Schweikard (Lubeck, Germany) and John R. Adler Jr. (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods that allow a user to elect between performing treatment planning by inverse planning or to be accomplished by utilizing one or more parameters input that are typically associated with forward planning are described herein. The systems can be configured to produce...