Intellectual Property - Patents

As a patent-based technology licensing company, Reverse Ionizer™ has built, and continues to build, a dominant and robust intellectual property portfolio for the in-line treatment of water using applied electromagnetic and advanced non-thermal plasma technologies.

RI's growing patent portfolio currently includes 15 issued U.S. patents and 8 pending patent applications which cover dual-field electromagnetic water treatment devices for applying electromagnetic fields to liquids, using a water-immersible probe configured to generate electromagnetic output fields effective to remove scale, prevent the growth of scale and/or eliminate microbes in a water supply system. Two applications cover resource savings, such as water, energy, power, amount of de-scaling chemicals, device lifetimes, data analytics and system depreciation as well as our recent plasma-based technology.

    • the use of plasma and electromagnetic fields to eliminate bacteria in water,

    • the control of electromagnetic fields to reliably and predictably reduce the formation of scale and other harmful contaminants in water over a wide range of changing water conditions and conductivities,

    • the ability to treat water as it continually flows through large water supply and distribution networks, such as those used in data centers, desalination plants, and oil/gas production facilities,

    • the remote monitoring of real-time water conditions to allow maintenance and service personnel to use just-in-time, “water-treatment-as-a-service” protocols,

    • the first-ever use of non-thermal plasma aimed at 99.9999% (Log 6) biological denaturing, 99.99% (Log 4) virus removal, and 99.9% (Log 3) parasite removal, and

    • the removal of deadly radionuclides from water.

RI’s existing patent portfolio protects the Company’s innovative technologies until 2036 and beyond.  Every named patent inventor listed on each of the patents in the Company’s patent portfolio has provided their assignment to Reverse Ionizer Systems, LLC (“RIS”), which is a wholly owned subsidiary of RI.  To date, there have been no challenges to the validity or patentability of any of the Company’s issued patents.

The Company will continue to focus on broadening the scope of its patent protection in the fields of non-thermal plasma technology, remote monitoring, and water-treatment-as-a-service technologies.  RI’s goal is to have a minimum of twenty issued U.S. patents in water treatment by the end of 2025.