ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,431, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ASHA MEDICAL INC. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"System and methods for treating cancer cells with alternating polarity magnetic fields" was invented by Vivek K. Sharma (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for destroying or inhibiting cancer cells and other rapidly-dividing cells including an alternating polarity (AP) magnetic field generator and one or more AP electromagnetic coil adapted to be coupled to at least a portion of a patient's body, and a controller to control the AP magnetic field generator and at least one AP electromagnetic coil and cause the field generato...