ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,768, issued on March 25, was assigned to Botanical Water Technologies IP Ltd (London).

"Systems and methods for the preparation of plant derived products using osmosis techniques" was invented by Ambrosios Kambouris (Mildura, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a plant derived product or a process intermediate or a process input, the method comprising the steps of providing a plant derived starting material, subjecting the starting material to a forward osmosis step against a draw solution so as to produce a plant material concentrate, and subjecting the draw solution to a water removal step. The water re...