US Patent Issued to NOVOCURE on April 14 for "Electrode assembly having perforated anisotropic layer, and systems and methods of applying tumor-treating fields using same" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,760, issued on April 14, was assigned to NOVOCURE GMBH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Electrode assembly having perforated anisotropic layer, and systems and methods of applying tumor-treating fields using same" was invented by Yoram Wasserman (Haifa, Israel), Stas Obuchovsky (Haifa, Israel), Nataliya Kuplennik (Haifa, Israel) and David Shapiro (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes: at least one electrode element; a layer of anisotropic material; a first layer of conductive adhesive positioned between a skin-facing surface of the at least one electrode element and an outwardly facing surface of the layer of anis...