Patent ID: 9398879
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. A scanner for sensing sub-epidermal moisture from a location external to a patient's skin, said scanner comprising: an array of bipolar radiofrequency (RF) sensors embedded on a flexible substrate comprising a substrate layer; wherein each bipolar RF sensor in said array comprises wherein said array of bipolar RF sensors is configured to emit and receive RF energy to interrogate into the derma of the patient's skin to sense sub-epidermal moisture; and wherein each of the bipolar RF sensors are individually wired to independently interrogate into the derma of the patient's skin; and wherein each of the bipolar RF sensors in said array is configured to measure an equivalent sub-epidermal capacitance of a target region of skin; and wherein said sub-epidermal capacitance corresponds to the moisture content of the target region of skin.