US Patent Issued to THE METHODIST HOSPITAL on Jan. 13 for "Method and apparatus for oncomagnetic treatment" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,564, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to THE METHODIST HOSPITAL (Houston).

"Method and apparatus for oncomagnetic treatment" was invented by Santosh Anand Helekar (Sugar Land, Texas), David Stuart Baskin (Houston), Martyn Alun Sharpe (Houston) and Kumar Pichumani (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To disrupt mitochondrial function in certain cells, controlling hardware causes a magnet to oscillate so as to generate an oscillating magnetic field. The oscillating magnetic field is applied to a volume of tissue including cells with degraded mitochondria to trigger apoptosis in the cells with degraded mitochondria."

The pa...