US Patent Issued to Novocure on June 9 for "Reducing electrosensation during application of alternating electric fields by ensuring that successive increases in amplitude occur during opposite phases of an AC waveform" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,061, issued on June 9, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Reducing electrosensation during application of alternating electric fields by ensuring that successive increases in amplitude occur during opposite phases of an AC waveform" was invented by Yoram Wasserman (Haifa, Israel), Mor Ben-Tov Kuperberg (Haifa, Israel) and Michael Shtotland (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When transducer arrays (i.e., arrays of electrode elements) are used to apply alternating electric fields to a subject's body, the subject may experience electrosensation, particularly during portions of the waveform where the amplitude ...