ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,406, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Geometrically fitted transducers for tumor treating fields" was invented by Noa Halavee (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Shalom Strauss (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transducer apparatus for delivering tumor treating fields to a subject's body, the transducer apparatus including: an array of electrode elements, the array configured to be positioned over the subject's body with a face of the array facing the subject's body; wherein, when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the face of the array, an outer perimeter of the array substantially trac...