US Patent Issued to ENDOMAGNETICS on June 23 for "Hyperthermia implants and a method and system for heating the implant" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,253, issued on June 23, was assigned to ENDOMAGNETICS Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Hyperthermia implants and a method and system for heating the implant" was invented by Quentin John Harmer (Cambridge, Great Britain), Tiziano Agostinelli (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Kevin Lorimer (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hyperthermia implant 20 for hyperthermia treatment of tissue 30 of a human or animal body. The implant comprises at least one piece of a large Barkhausen jump material (LBJ) and a magnetic field may be applied to the implant to heat the surrounding tissue. The implant may also be deployed to mark a tissu...