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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2020
Joint Venture Holdings, Llc, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
John Moorehead, Huntsville, UT (US);
Emily Drown, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Ken Rivera, St. George, UT (US);
Terry A. Ring, Sandy, UT (US);
Ahron Barber, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Soma Oil LLC, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
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 disruption apparatus is downstream of the grinding apparatus and is configured to disrupt cell walls of plant cells of the wet cannabis particles through one or more of flash freezing, a cellulose solvent, applied negative pressure, and vacuum distillation to facilitate removal of one or more cannabinoids within the plant cells of the wet cannabis particles. Methods of processing cannabis are also described.