US Patent Issued to Novocure on Oct. 20 for "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for combined tumor treating fields and mental health therapy" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,318, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Novocure GMBH (Root, Switzerland).

"Methods, systems, and apparatuses for combined tumor treating fields and mental health therapy" was invented by Kristen W. Carlson (Haifa, Israel) and Zeev Bomzon (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for using electrical stimulation to combine (e.g., concomitantly) tumor treating fields (TTFIelds) and mental health therapy (e.g., anti-depression therapy, anti-anxiety therapy, etc.)."

The patent was filed on Dec. 21, 2020, under Application No. 17/790,427.

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