US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Nov. 3 for "Implantable RF sensor for biofilm detection" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,499, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Implantable RF sensor for biofilm detection" was invented by Paden Troxell (Conshohocken, Pa.) and David C. Paul (Phoenixville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical implant includes an implant component configured to be implanted in a patient, a radio frequency (RF) transmit antenna in the implant component and configured to transmit a RF signal, and circuitry within the implant component. The circuitry is operative to generate the RF signal to the RF transmit antenna, determine a characteristic of attenuation of the RF signal when the RF transmit ante...