US Patent Issued to Novocure on July 15 for "Using interleaved cooling periods to increase the peak intensity of tumor treating fields" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,821, issued on July 15, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Using interleaved cooling periods to increase the peak intensity of tumor treating fields" was invented by Tali Voloshin-Sela (Haifa, Israel), Lilach Avigdor (Haifa, Israel) and Reuven Shamir (Zichron Ya'akov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Alternating electric fields (e.g., TTFields) may be induced in a target region in a subject's body by applying, during each of a plurality of first time intervals, a series of pulses of alternating current between electrode elements positioned on or in the subject's body. Immediately following each first interval of...