ISM Expands IP Portfolio with New Barbell Horn® Patent

We are thrilled to announce that Industrial Sonomechanics (ISM) has been granted a new patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office!

This achievement marks a significant expansion of ISM's intellectual property portfolio. The patent specifically covers several new embodiments of our groundbreaking high-amplitude Barbell Horns® technology, which are crucial to the superior performance and efficiency of our ultrasonic processors.

Further details on our Barbell Horn designs and the new patent are provided below.

Protected Barbell Horn® Designs:

Spot these shapes and look for engraved U.S. Patent numbers 12,005,417; 11,325,094; 8,651,230; and/or 7,156,201 to ensure you are working with an authentic Industrial Sonomechanics' Barbell Horn®!

What is a Barbell Horn®?

Barbell Horn® is the name of a group of ultrasonic horn designs that form the core of ISM's intellectual property. These devices are unique in their ability to resolve the main limitation of ultrasonic liquid processing technology—its scalability. Barbell Horns® make it possible to increase the size of an ultrasonic system while still allowing it to generate high amplitudes and processing intensities. 

Barbell Horn®-based laboratory, bench and industrial-scale ultrasonic processors can, therefore, provide an extremely wide range of ultrasonic amplitudes (up to at least 100 microns) to enable even the most challenging applications. Our customers can count on reproducible post-scale-up results, where productivity rates are greatly increased while the highest finished product quality is maintained.

Industrial Sonomechanics (ISM) Patent Details:

• Patent #: 12,005,417 B2
• Date of Patent: 06/11/2024
• Title: Ultrasonic Horn With A Large High-Amplitude Output Surface

Learn more about ISM's groundbreaking invention, the Barbell Horn®, in this video:

About Industrial Sonomechanics

ISM is a research & development, equipment design, and process consulting firm specializing in high-intensity ultrasonic technology for liquid treatment. ISM offers bench and commercial-scale ultrasonic liquid processors, also known as ultrasonic homogenizers, ultrasonic mixers, sonochemical reactors, or ultrasonic wet milling systems, capable of providing unprecedented processing rates and product quality.

Application examples include the production of nanoemulsions, liposomes, nanocrystals, and wax nanoparticles for the cannabis, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food, ink, paint, coating, wood treatment, nanocomposite, pesticide, and fuel industries. Additionally, we are actively involved in plant oil extraction, liquid degassing, cell disruption, polymer and epoxy processing, and more.

See how ISM high-amplitude ultrasonic processors increase the speed of production and improve the quality of results:

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