System, devices, and methods including actively-controllable sterilizing excitation delivery implants
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1. An implantable device, comprising:
- a first outer surface;
an actively-controllable excitation component configurable to deliver a sterilizing stimulus, in vivo, to tissue proximate the first outer surface of the implantable device; and
a control means operably coupled to the actively-controllable excitation component, the control means configured to control at least one ofa sterilizing stimulus delivery regimen parameter, a spaced-apart sterilizing stimulus delivery pattern parameter, a spatial electric field modulation parameter, a spatial electric field magnitude parameter, or a spatial electric field distribution parameter associated with the delivery of the sterilizing stimulus.
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Abstract
Systems, devices, methods, and compositions are described for providing an actively-controllable disinfecting implantable device configured to, for example, treat or prevent an infection in a biological subject.
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a first outer surface; an actively-controllable excitation component configurable to deliver a sterilizing stimulus, in vivo, to tissue proximate the first outer surface of the implantable device; and a control means operably coupled to the actively-controllable excitation component, the control means configured to control at least one of a sterilizing stimulus delivery regimen parameter, a spaced-apart sterilizing stimulus delivery pattern parameter, a spatial electric field modulation parameter, a spatial electric field magnitude parameter, or a spatial electric field distribution parameter associated with the delivery of the sterilizing stimulus. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 10, 12, 16, 17, 19, 30, 31, 33, 34, 36, 43, 44, 45, 47, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 60, 61, 62, 68, 69, 73, 76, 89, 90, 91, 93, 95, 100, 101, 103)
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an actively-controllable excitation component configured to deliver a sterilizing stimulus, in vivo, to a target tissue proximate at least a portion of the actively-controllable excitation component; and means for controlling at least one sterilizing stimulus delivery parameter associated with the delivery of the sterilizing stimulus in response to at least one characteristic associated with the tissue proximate the actively-controllable excitation component. - View Dependent Claims (159, 168)
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