ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,709, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NOVOCURE GMBH (Root, Switzerland).
"Compositions and methods for imaging a cell" was invented by Tali Voloshin-Sela (Haifa, Israel), Hadas Hershkovish (Haifa, Israel) and Ze'ev Bomzon (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of imaging a cancer cell, the method comprising applying a first alternating electric field at a first frequency to the cancer cell for a first period of time, wherein application of the first alternating electric field at the first frequency to the cancer cell for the first period of time increases permeability of cell membranes of the cancer cell;...