US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Nov. 4 for "Devices and methods for treatment of tumors using electromagnetic signal" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,800, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Devices and methods for treatment of tumors using electromagnetic signal" was invented by Clark C. Chen (Edina, Minn.), Gregory Frederick Molnar (Blaine, Minn.) and Sanjay Dhawan (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for treating cancerous tumors (including glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)) with electrotherapy, such as deep brain stimulation (DBS) technology, as disclosed herein. One or more configurations can be generated based on a patients tumor characteristics. The selected configurations can be electrode configurat...