US Patent Issued to Novocure on Jan. 28 for "Generating tumor treating fields (TTFields) with high uniformity throughout the brain" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,275, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Root, Switzerland).

"Generating tumor treating fields (TTFields) with high uniformity throughout the brain" was invented by Zeev Bomzon (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Ariel Naveh (Haifa, Israel) and Ofir Yesharim (Nes Tziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses configurations for arranging transducer arrays on a person's head to impose tumor treating fields (TTFields) in the brain at field strengths that are as uniform as possible throughout the entire brain. In some embodiments, L-shaped sets of electrodes are positioned near the right and left ears, each w...