US Patent Issued to Novocure on May 19 for "Electrode assembly for applying tumor treating fields (TTFields) that includes a plurality of thermally linked but electrically isolated graphite sheets" (Israeli, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,511, issued on May 19, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Electrode assembly for applying tumor treating fields (TTFields) that includes a plurality of thermally linked but electrically isolated graphite sheets" was invented by Yoram Wasserman (Haifa, Israel), Stas Obuchovsky (Haifa, Israel), Nataliya Kuplennik (Kanata, Canada) and David Shapiro (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Alternating electric fields (e.g., TTFields) may be applied to a subject's body using electrode assemblies, each of which includes a plurality of graphite sheets (or sheets of another conductive anisotropic material) that are posit...