US Patent Issued to Novocure on March 31 for "Methods and apparatuses for detecting and responding to changes in a subject" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,255, issued on March 31, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Methods and apparatuses for detecting and responding to changes in a subject" was invented by Reuven Ruby Shamir (Haifa, Israel), Yoram Wasserman (Haifa, Israel), Zeev Bomzon (Haifa, Israel), Oren Peles Zeevi (Haifa, Israel) and Tal Marciano (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of applying tumor treating fields to a region of interest of a subject's body corresponding to a tumor, the method including: alternately applying to the region of interest a first electric field between a first pair of locations of the subject's body and a second e...