ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,522, issued on June 23, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Transducer apparatuses with electrode element spacing to reduce edge effect in delivering tumor treating fields to a subject's body" was invented by Yoram Wasserman (Haifa, Israel), Stas Obuchovsky (Haifa, Israel), Nataliya Kuplennik (Haifa, Israel), David Shapiro (Haifa, Israel), Elie Yaacobi (Haifa, Israel), Golan Bar-Tal (Haifa, Israel) and Noa Halavee (Tel Aviv, 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, the transducer apparatus including: a plurality of electrode elements; wherei...