US Patent Issued to NOVOCURE on Jan. 27 for "Flexible transducer arrays with a polymer insulating layer for applying tumor treating fields (TTFields)" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,512, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NOVOCURE GMBH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Flexible transducer arrays with a polymer insulating layer for applying tumor treating fields (TTFields)" was invented by Yoram Wasserman (Haifa, Israel), Stas Obuchovsky (Haifa, Israel) and Nataliya Kuplennik (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are devices for applying an alternating electric field to a living subject or an in vitro medium at a frequency between 100 kHz and 500 kHz. Also described herein are methods of using the described devices for applying an AC electric field to a target region comprising rapidly dividing cells...