ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,535, issued on May 19, was assigned to NEW PHASE LTD. (Petach Tikva, Israel).
"Phase-change nanoparticle" was invented by Raphael Hof (Kfar Yona, Israel), Raz Khandadash (Bat Yam, Israel), Sarah Kraus (Rishon Le'zion, Israel) and Pazit Rukenstein (Rishon Le'zion, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are described for use with a heating device (26) configured to heat at least a portion of a subject's body. A nanoparticle (22) is configured to be administered to the subject, the nanoparticle including at least one inner core (30) that includes a magnetic material having a Curie temperature; a phase-change-material...