ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,640, issued on May 13, was assigned to ImmunSys Inc. (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).
"Cancer immunotherapy by radiofrequency electrical membrane breakdown (RF-EMB)" was invented by Gary M. Onik (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and James A. Miessau (Branford, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of non-thermally ablating undesirable tissue in the body by application of pulsed, bipolar, instant charge reversal electrical fields of sufficient energy to cause complete and immediate cell membrane rupture and destruction. Energy is delivered through radio frequency pulses of particular frequencies, wave characteristics, pulse widths and pulse num...