ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,641, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Cold Plasma Group Inc. (Kingston, Canada).
"Sterilization of plant material" was invented by Florina Truica-Marasescu (Odessa, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for sterilizing plant material include disposing plant material in a sub-atmospheric pressure environment, dispersing a non-toxic, non-polymerizable gas into the sub-atmospheric pressure environment, applying an electric field to change the gas into cold plasma, and maintaining exposure of the plant material to the cold plasma until substantially sterilized plant material is obtained, wherein an amount of at le...