US Patent Issued to Novocure on July 7 for "Tumor treating field transducers with protective border, and apparatuses and methods for active detection of improper transducer configuration" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,213, issued on July 7, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Tumor treating field transducers with protective border, and apparatuses and methods for active detection of improper transducer configuration" 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: "A transducer apparatus for delivering tumor treating fields to a subject's body, including: a substrate; an electrode element coupled to the substrate; a layer of anisotropic material electrically coupled to the electrode element, wherein the...