US Patent Issued to E. & J. Gallo Winery on Oct. 28 for "Systems for processing plant materials and producing dried products" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,707, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to E. & J. Gallo Winery (Modesto, Calif.).

"Systems for processing plant materials and producing dried products" was invented by Jorge Ortiz (Fresno, Calif.), Nathan Keeley (Fresno, Calif.) and Dan Burgess (Clovis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for processing a plant material, such as cannabis and/or hemp. An example method includes: providing a slurry of plant material; providing an inert gas; adding the slurry and the inert gas to a tank; applying heat and pressure to the slurry inside the tank to generate a processed plant material; removing the process...