Patent ID: 11864911
Assignee: BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 8:
9. A system to treat a surface of a foreign metallic implant, the system comprising:
one or more external transmitter devices comprising an alternating magnetic field (AMF) transmitter configured to apply one or more AMF pulses to the foreign metallic implant;
one or more acoustic sensor devices configured to sense acoustic energy having one or more acoustic emission signatures from tissue located in a vicinity of the foreign metallic implant; and
a control system comprising at least one processor configured to perform operations comprising:
(a) enable the one or more external transmitter devices to apply one or more AMF pulses to the foreign metallic implant for one or more of a predetermined time period, a predetermined pulse duration, a predetermined pulse repetition frequency, a predetermined power level, or combinations thereof;
(b) receive one or more signals from the one or more acoustic sensor devices;
(c) determine that the one or more signals correspond to one or more first predetermined acoustic emission signatures;
(d) in response to determining that the one or more signals correspond to one or more first predetermined acoustic emission signatures, enable the one or more external transmitter devices to discontinue applying the one or more AMF pulses to the foreign metallic implant for a predetermined delay period after applying the one or more AMF pulses.