A61B 2018/147
Electrodes transferring energy by capacitive coupling, i.e. with a dielectricum between electrode
Official title: {Electrodes transferring energy by capacitive coupling, i.e. with a dielectricum between electrode and target tissue}
A61B2018/147 (Electrodes transferring energy by capacitive coupling, i.e. with a dielectricum between electrode) appears on 155 US grants and 229 published applications in this corpus.
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