US Patent Issued to Novocure on Sept. 8 for "Delivering tumor treating fields (TTFields) to the neck, thoracic spine, and optic tract" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,263, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Novocure GmbH (Baar, Switzerland).

"Delivering tumor treating fields (TTFields) to the neck, thoracic spine, and optic tract" was invented by Ariel Naveh (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) therapy, one or more pairs of electrode assemblies are used to impose an alternating electric field to the tumor. However, when the cancer cells are distributed among two or more different locations within the subject's body, it can be difficult to achieve sufficient field intensities in all of the different locations. By positioning one pair of electrode ass...