ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,390, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Natural Extraction Systems LLC (Boulder, Colo.).
"Methods to refine cannabinoids" was invented by C. Russell Thomas (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure generally relates to gas-phase methods to simultaneously purify and decarboxylate cannabinoids in about two seconds, which are about 100-10,000 times more efficient than conventional purification and decarboxylation strategies. The methods also recover thermolabile cannabinoids such as cannabigerol at significantly higher yields than conventional methods."
The patent was filed on Feb. 6, 2021, under Application No. 17...