US 12,187,991 B2
Apparatus and method for modifying a responsive liquid held in a liquid container having resonant frequencies in the audio frequency range
John D. Meyer, Berkeley, CA (US); Katrin M. Rawks, El Cerrito, CA (US); Jon Arneson, Napa, CA (US); Paul Kohut, Richmond, CA (US); Roger Schwenke, Alameda, CA (US); Pei-Yuan Liu, Albany, CA (US); and Carlo Zuccatti, Berkeley, CA (US)
Assigned to Meyer Sound Laboratories, Incorporated, Berkeley, CA (US)
Filed by Meyer Sound Laboratories, Incorporated, Berkeley, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 8, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/679,079.
Application 16/679,079 is a continuation of application No. 16/555,378, filed on Aug. 29, 2019, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/724,558, filed on Aug. 29, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0071645 A1, Mar. 5, 2020
Int. Cl. C12H 1/22 (2006.01); C12H 1/06 (2006.01); C12H 1/16 (2006.01); H04R 1/22 (2006.01); C12G 1/06 (2019.01)
CPC C12H 1/16 (2013.01) [C12H 1/06 (2013.01); C12H 1/22 (2013.01); H04R 1/22 (2013.01); C12G 1/062 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for modifying a liquid held in a liquid container having container walls wherein the liquid is responsive to vibration energy within the audio frequency range that is introduced into the liquid, said apparatus comprising:
a transducer having a voice coil assembly for producing vibration energy within the audio frequency range in response to an audio signal input,
a coupler affixed to the voice coil assembly of the transducer such that vibration energy produced by the voice coil assembly of the transducer in the audio frequency range transfers to the coupler, the coupler being configured to transmit vibration energy within the audio frequency range that is produced by the voice coil assembly of the transducer in response to an audio signal input to the wall of the container when the transducer is held next to the wall of the container.