ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,168, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Personalized electric field cancer treatment method and device" was invented by Hyung Ju Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Soo Jun Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Chul Huh (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a treatment method includes: obtaining patient information, tumor information and electric field-related information; calculating an electric field strength applied to a first tumor region based on the patient information, the tumor information and...