US Patent Issued to NOVOCURE on May 19 for "Apparatus and method for array positioning" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,534, issued on May 19, was assigned to NOVOCURE GMBH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Apparatus and method for array positioning" was invented by Elie Yaacobi (Haifa, Israel) and Shalom Strauss (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating, from an electronic 3-dimensional map indicating placement locations of a plurality of electrode arrays, an electronic 2-dimensional map indicating placement locations of the plurality of electrode arrays relative to each other in 2-dimensional space. The electronic 3-dimensional map is associated with a surface area of at least a portion of a body of a patient. The electronic 3-di...