US Patent Issued to Novocure on Dec. 30 for "Using capacitors to regulate current in transducer arrays for applying tumor treating fields (TTFields)" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,437, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Using capacitors to regulate current in transducer arrays for applying tumor treating fields (TTFields)" was invented by Yoram Wasserman (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transducer arrays for applying alternating electric fields (e.g., tumor treating fields a.k.a. TTFields) to a subject's body typically include a plurality of capacitively coupled electrode elements. Often, certain electrode elements on a given array tend to run hotter than other electrode elements. For example, in many anatomical contexts, the corner elements of the transducer ar...