US Patent Issued to Novocure on July 14 for "Reducing electrosensation while treating a subject using alternating electric fields by controlling ramp-up characteristics" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,620, issued on July 14, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Reducing electrosensation while treating a subject using alternating electric fields by controlling ramp-up characteristics" was invented by Yoram Wasserman (Haifa, Israel) and Michael Shtotland (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When transducer arrays (i.e., arrays of electrode elements) are used to apply alternating electric fields to a subject's body, the subject may experience electrosensation. This electrosensation can be ameliorated by changing the way the voltage ramps up from zero to its peak when the AC voltage is first applied to any give...