US Patent Issued to Novocure on May 27 for "Delivering alternating electric fields (e.g., TTFields) to a subject's spinal anatomy" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,167, issued on May 27, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Delivering alternating electric fields (e.g., TTFields) to a subject's spinal anatomy" was invented by Zeev Bomzon (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Ariel Naveh (Haifa, Israel) and Ofir Yesharim (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Alternating electric fields (e.g., TTFields) can be delivered at a therapeutically effective strength to a target region of the spinal anatomy. In some embodiments, first and second sets of electrode elements are positioned with their centroids adjacent to upper and lower portions of the person's spine, respectively. In other embodim...