US Patent Issued to Novocure on June 23 for "Compositions and methods for using alternating electric fields to disrupt lipid capsules" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,403, issued on June 23, was assigned to Novocure GMBH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Compositions and methods for using alternating electric fields to disrupt lipid capsules" was invented by Lilach Avigdor (Haifa, Israel), Tali Voloshin-Sela (Haifa, Israel) and Uri Weinberg (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of delivering a therapeutic to a target site of a subject comprising administering a lipid capsule to a target site of a subject, wherein the lipid capsule comprises a therapeutic agent; and applying an alternating electric field, at a frequency for a period of time, to the target site of the subject, wher...