US Patent Issued to Novocure on Sept. 16 for "Implantable arrays for providing tumor treating fields" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,083, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Implantable arrays for providing tumor treating fields" was invented by Moshe Giladi (Haifa, Israel) and Uri Weinberg (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating an electric field has a plurality of elongate elements, the plurality of elongate elements including at least a first elongate element and a second elongate element. Each elongate element of the plurality of elongate elements has a proximal end, an opposed distal end and at least one stimulation zone. The plurality of elongate elements are coupled together at their res...