Patent ID: 11964079
Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 7:
8. A method comprising:
transmitting RF energy from multiple radio frequency (RF) emitters into a specified area in order to inactivate one or more specified microorganisms in the specified area;
obtaining information identifying different types of microorganisms that are or might be present in the specified area over time;
controlling the RF emitters in order to adjust the RF energy transmitted by the RF emitters;
adjusting the RF energy transmitted by the RF emitters in order to target the different types of microorganisms for inactivation over time; and
maintaining a collective field strength below a safety standard threshold within an overlapping region of at least two of the RF emitters when inactivation of a specified microorganism requires increasing the RF energy of the RF emitters.