ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,291, issued on April 7, was assigned to Alpha Tau Medical Ltd (Jerusalem).

"Intratumoral alpha-emitter radiation and activation of cytoplasmatic sensors for intracellular pathogen" was invented by Vered Domankevich (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Yona Keisari (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Itzhak Kelson (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a patient with a tumor, and kits (200) for such treatment. The method includes administering, to the patient, a substance (204) which activates cytoplasmatic sensors for intracellular pathogen in the tumor and treating the tumor with intra-tumoral alpha-emitter radiotherapy within...