US Patent Issued to NOVOCURE on Aug. 5 for "Nonconductive field guide for resection cavity, and systems and methods of using same" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,265, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NOVOCURE GMBH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Nonconductive field guide for resection cavity, and systems and methods of using same" was invented by Moshe Giladi (Haifa, Israel), Lilach Avigdor (Haifa, Israel) and Ariel Naveh (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating tumor cells around a resection cavity comprises positioning a nonconductive material within a resection cavity that is adjacent to a target region. At least a first electrode and a second electrode are positioned relative to the tumor resection cavity so that electric fields between the at least one first electrode an...