US Patent Issued to Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties on Dec. 2 for "Methods for modulating temporal infrastructure of pulsed electric fields" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,279, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Methods for modulating temporal infrastructure of pulsed electric fields" was invented by Kenneth N. Aycock (Blacksburg, Va.) and Rafael V. Davalos (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High-frequency irreversible electroporation (H-FIRE) is a tissue ablation modality employing bursts of electrical pulses in a positive phase-interphase delay-negative phase-interpulse delay pattern. Despite accumulating evidence suggesting the significance of these delays, their effects on therapeutic outcomes from clinically-relevant H-FIRE ...