US 12,168,126 B2
Systems and methods for a conformable modular electrode for application of an alternating electric field to tissue
Benjamin Hendricks, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Dignity Health, San Francisco, CA (US)
Appl. No. 18/551,453
Filed by Dignity Health, San Francisco, CA (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 4, 2022, PCT No. PCT/US2022/023321
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 20, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/216614, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 13, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/170,514, filed on Apr. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0173546 A1, May 30, 2024
Int. Cl. A61N 1/36 (2006.01); A61N 1/02 (2006.01); A61N 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 1/36002 (2017.08) [A61N 1/025 (2013.01); A61N 1/0476 (2013.01); A61N 1/36031 (2017.08); A61N 1/36034 (2017.08)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a flexible scaffold defining a planar body formed by one or more layers, wherein the flexible scaffold includes a depth electrode port defined through the planar body of the flexible scaffold, the depth electrode port having one or more port contacts;
a depth electrode having one or more terminal contacts being operable to assume a stimulating role or a measuring role and the one or more interfacing contacts establishing electrical communication between the one or more terminal contacts and the one or more port contacts of the depth electrode is positioned within the depth electrode port; and
a control system in electrical communication with the one or more port contacts, the control system including a processor in communication with a memory, the memory comprising instructions, which, when executed, cause the processor to:
apply a stimulating voltage to a target tissue area through the one or more port contacts in communication with the one or more terminal contacts;
receive a measured voltage from the one or more terminal contacts through the one or more port; and
optimize the stimulating voltage of based on the measured voltage,
wherein the one or more port contacts and the one or more interfacing contacts facilitate electrical communication between the one or more terminal contacts of the depth electrode and the control system when the one or more interfacing contacts of the depth electrode are electrically coupled with the one or more port contacts of the depth electrode port; and
wherein removal of the depth electrode from the depth electrode port electrically decouples the one or more terminal contacts from the control system.