ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,592, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Kiffen LLC (San Francisco).

"Encapsulated cannabinoid comestible noble metal compositions and products, methods of preparing same" was invented by Sarah Rodriguez (San Francisco) and Ali Jamalian (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the micro-encapsulation of terpenes, lipids, sterols, antioxidants, cannabinoids and/or other hydrophobic compounds includes providing an extract material and preparing an aqueous solution including a cellular material. A disruption of the aqueous solution is performed, to at least partially liberate proteins of the cellular material. The extra...