US Patent Issued to Novocure on Oct. 7 for "Arrays for delivering tumor treating fields (TTFields) with individually accessible electrode elements and temperature sensors" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,053, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Arrays for delivering tumor treating fields (TTFields) with individually accessible electrode elements and temperature sensors" was invented by Yoram Wasserman (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tumor treating fields (TTFields) can be delivered to a subject's body at higher field strengths by switching off one or more electrode elements in a transducer array that are overheating. This may be accomplished by using thermistors that sense the temperature of each electrode element. Portions of the wiring of each transducer array is shared between the ele...