US Patent Issued to Novocure on Oct. 20 for "Delivering tumor treating fields (TTFields) using implanted sheets of graphite" (Israeli, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,319, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Delivering tumor treating fields (TTFields) using implanted sheets of graphite" 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., tumor treating fields, a.k.a. TTFields) may be applied to a target region in a subject's body via sheets of graphite that are implanted in the subject's body. One or more ports configured for affixation to the subject's body include or connect to one or more mating el...