US Patent Issued to Novocure on July 7 for "Pyroelectric-based temperature sensing of transducer arrays for applying Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields)" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,212, issued on July 7, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Pyroelectric-based temperature sensing of transducer arrays for applying Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields)" was invented by Yoram Wasserman (Haifa, Israel), Stas Obuchovsky (Haifa, Israel) and Nataliya Kuplennik (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "TTFields are applied using transducer arrays made from a plurality of individual electrode elements. The temperatures of those electrode elements can be normalized by positioning respective regions of pyroelectric material in thermal contact with the electrode elements, and subsequently applying an AC signal ...