US 11,980,768 B2
Therapeutic systems using magnetic and electric fields
Calvin S. Carter, Iowa City, IA (US); Sunny C. Huang, Iowa City, IA (US); Michael J. Miller, Iowa City, IA (US); Charles C. Searby, Iowa City, IA (US); and Val C. Sheffield, Iowa City, IA (US)
Assigned to University of Iowa Research Foundation, Iowa City, IA (US)
Filed by University of Iowa Research Foundation, Iowa City, IA (US)
Filed on Jul. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/369,784.
Application 17/369,784 is a continuation of application No. 16/280,551, filed on Feb. 20, 2019, granted, now 11,071,875.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/632,540, filed on Feb. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0339035 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. A61N 2/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/145 (2006.01); A61N 1/04 (2006.01); A61N 1/10 (2006.01); A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61N 1/40 (2006.01); A61N 2/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 2/002 (2013.01) [A61B 5/14532 (2013.01); A61N 1/0484 (2013.01); A61N 1/10 (2013.01); A61N 1/36002 (2017.08); A61N 1/36034 (2017.08); A61N 1/40 (2013.01); A61N 2/00 (2013.01); A61N 2/06 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for delivering a therapy to a patient on a surface of a bed, comprising:
a magnetic system configured to provide a magnetic field in a first direction over the surface of the bed; and
an electric field system configured to provide an electric field in a second direction over the surface of the bed, the second direction being non-parallel to the first direction,
wherein the electric field system includes at least a first electrode and at least a second electrode configured to be positioned on opposing first and second sides of the bed, both the first electrode and the second electrode are plate-shaped electrodes configured to be positioned substantially parallel to each other to provide the electric field with uniformity between the plate-shaped electrodes and over the surface of the bed, and with approximately linear electric field vectors in the second direction from the first side of the bed to the second side of the bed.