US Patent Issued to Novocure on Sept. 9 for "Methods and apparatuses for delivering tumor treating fields to a subject's body for near-surface tumors" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,332, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Methods and apparatuses for delivering tumor treating fields to a subject's body for near-surface tumors" was invented by Tal Marciano (Haifa, Israel), Smadar Arvatz (Haifa, Israel) and Boaz Marsault (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a location of a transducer on a subject's body for applying tumor treating fields. The method comprises determining a near-surface portion of a tumor in the subject's body, the near-surface portion of the tumor closer to a surface of the subject's body than other portions of the tumor; determ...