ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,196, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Dignity Health (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for treatment of cancer using alternating electric field generation" was invented by Benjamin Hendricks (San Francisco) and Kris Smith (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a system and method for the treatment of brain cancer using a subdurally-implanted alternating electric field generation apparatus are disclosed herein."

The patent was filed on Jan. 18, 2023, under Application No. 18/155,849.

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