ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,415, issued on April 29, was assigned to Soma Oil LLC (Salt Lake City).

"Cannabis processing systems and methods" was invented by John Moorehead (Huntsville, Utah), Emily Drown (Salt Lake City), Ken Rivera (St. George, Utah), Terry A. Ring (Sandy, Utah) and Ahron Barber (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Cannabis processing system comprises a grinding apparatus and a cell disruption apparatus. The grinding apparatus is configured to grind wet Cannabis cuttings to from a ground, wet Cannabis material comprising wet Cannabis particles having an average particle size within a range of from about 1 mm to about 3 mm. The cell...