Hi @jrb1743, welcome to the forum.
My first thought on this patent is: great! I hope they are successful in defeating kidney disease.
My next thought, reviewing the claims, is that the key elements of the PEMF they intend to use are not well defined, but this is not unusual for modern patents; they do not like to “teach” too much. They may know a lot more than they disclose. I hope they do. But they may not, and this may be one of those prophetic patents that claims a broad application area while not actually having developed a real invention or a practical solution (failure to “reduce to practice”).
I hope they are not doing this, but just so everyone on this forum is aware, patent trolls are a huge problem. They make broad claims but never actually invent anything. Then, when someone else comes along with a real invention that actually works, they sue them for infringement. It’s predatory, and several states have enacted legislation to ban this practice. It destroys innovation.
Patent trolling is very common: for example, I know the person who essentially killed progress on the use of adult stem cells in tissue engineering. He filed 295 prophetic patents on every possible general way to use adult stem cells, but had not actually tried or perfected any of them. Then, when someone would try to make progress in this area, he would write them a threatening letter (he was a lawyer) informing them that they had to pay up to continue working in this area. He told me all about this himself. He was a real gem of a person. He died in prison last year for murdering his wife decades ago.
Patent trolls suck… this is a complex topic, we’ll leave it at that.
But my hope is that the assignee of this patent (the company and its team) is not just patent trolling. However, I checked their website. I didn’t click any links, it looked suspicious to me. Have a look for yourself at these screen shots:
Note the menu bar above, doubled links (HOME HOME My Work My Work…)
It looks very hastily assembled.
Then scroll down. Read the text:
It’s just filler gibberish. Its called “Lorem Ipsum”. It usually means that a website is under construction. But that’s pretty fishy for the home page of a company that claims “542 Projects, 34 Employees, 100+ Contractors, 167+ Publications”
And here is their team of pioneers:
The patent was issued in February 2021, more than 2 years ago to this company. Looking at this website, the fact that they claim to have so many projects, publications, employees, contractors, and issued patents from several years ago makes this all seem pretty sketchy to me.
But maybe they are real. I don’t know so I will refrain from making a harsh judgement. So, @jrb1743, do you know about this company? Are you affiliated with them?
If they are real and actually doing something to benefit society, then I would be very happy to help them develop a PEMF system that actually works. If not, I guess we’ll see where it goes.