US Patent Issued to THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY on Nov. 4 for "Method and system of using plasma discharge tube for sensitization of cancer cells" (Maryland, Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,809, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Washington).

"Method and system of using plasma discharge tube for sensitization of cancer cells" was invented by Michael Keidar (Baltimore), Dayun Yan (Ashburn, Va.), Xiaoliang Yao (Fairfax, Va.), Li Lin (Arlington, Va.), Vikas Soni (Washington) and Jonathan Sherman (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of sensitization of cancerous cells in a volume is disclosed. A plasma tube including a pair of electrodes coupled to a power supply is provided. The plasma tube generates a plasma jet between the electrodes. A controller is coupled to ...