ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,215, issued on July 7, was assigned to SOLENIC MEDICAL INC. (Addison, Texas).

"System for application of alternating magnetic fields to reduce infection" was invented by David Greenberg (Coppell, Texas), John Tepper (Carrollton, Texas) and Rajiv Chopra (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes: (1) determining a first orientation of first and second portions of a first image with respect to one another, wherein the first portion depicts a first metallic implant and the second portion depicts a first coil, wherein the first orientation is based on: (a) a first distance between the first and second portions with resp...