US Patent Issued to Novocure on June 17 for "Methods and apparatuses for determining transducer locations to generate tumor treating fields" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,713, issued on June 17, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Methods and apparatuses for determining transducer locations to generate tumor treating fields" was invented by Tal Marciano (Haifa, Israel) and Oshrit Zeevi (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method to determine placement of transducers on a subject's body, the method including: selecting a plurality of intersecting line segment pairs on an image of the subject's body, each of the line segment pairs intersecting in a region of the image corresponding to a tumor in the subject's body, each of the line segment pairs correspond...