ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,518, issued on May 26, was assigned to Healios Therapeutics LLC (Bend, Ore.).
"Hyperthermia for surface cancers" was invented by Ankit Agarwal (Fremont, Calif.) and David Erik Greene (Bend, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes positioning an infrared hyperthermia heating device at least a predetermined distance away from an area of a patient's skin treated with radiation therapy and activating the infrared hyperthermia heating device to heat the area of the patient's skin. The method further includes heating, by the infrared hyperthermia heating device, the area of the patient's skin to a predetermi...