US Patent Issued to Novocure on Jan. 20 for "Method and system for applying tumor treating fields interfacing with hair follicles" (Connecticut Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,954, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Method and system for applying tumor treating fields interfacing with hair follicles" was invented by Richard Deslauriers (Woodbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for delivering TTFields are herein described. The system comprises an electric field generator generating a signal having a frequency from 50 kHz to 1 MHz and coupled to a lead. A pad is coupled to the lead and includes a solid continuous phase material and a conductive gel. The solid continuous phase material receives the signal from the lead, has a skin-facing surface, a...