ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,784, issued on July 8, was assigned to Crosby Hop Farm LLC (Woodburn, Ore.).
"Cryogenic hop processing method" was invented by Blake Crosby (Lake Oswego, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for cryogenically processing hops includes: simultaneously cryogenically cooling a plurality of hop cones and fracturing each hop cone of the plurality of hop cones into one or more respective fractured hop pieces using a cryogenic mixer; without an intervening fracturing step, separating the fractured hop pieces such that the fractured hop pieces are divided into lupulin powder and vegetative matter; and compressing the lupulin powder int...