US Patent Issued to NOVOCURE on Aug. 26 for "Compositions and methods of altering the electric impedance to an alternating electric field" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,167, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NOVOCURE GMBH (Root, Switzerland).

"Compositions and methods of altering the electric impedance to an alternating electric field" was invented by Hadas Hershkovich (Haifa, Israel), Tali Voloshin-Sela (Haifa, Israel) and Ze'ev Bomzon (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of altering the electric impedance to an alternating electric field in a target site of a subject, comprising introducing a nanoparticle to a target site in the subject; and applying an alternating electric field to the target site of the subject, wherein the electric impedance in the target site of...