ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,280, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).
"Selecting values of parameters for treatment using tumor treating fields (TTFields)" was invented by Moshe Giladi (Haifa, Israel), Reuven R. Shamir (Zichron Yalakov, Israel) and Kirill Stepovoy (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Characteristics of alternating electric fields that will be applied to a target region in a subject's body can be selected by applying different sets of pulses between electrode elements positioned on opposite sides of the target region. Thermal responses to the different sets of pulses are determined. Based on these thermal ...