Patents by Inventor C. Russell Thomas

C. Russell Thomas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240181369
    Abstract: Various aspects of this disclosure relate to the discovery that converting a solid or a liquid into an aerosol allows the distillation of molecules from the aerosol in seconds at temperatures that are significantly less than the boiling points of the molecules. Various aspects of this disclosure relate to the discovery that mute plants can be extracted at both ambient temperatures and temperatures significantly less than the boiling points of the volatile molecules of the mute plants by capturing the volatile molecules in a solvent such as ethanol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventor: C. Russell THOMAS
  • Publication number: 20240131040
    Abstract: Various aspects of this disclosure relate to a composition, comprising a liquid phase that comprises a plurality of cations, an anion, a molecule, a base, and a solvent, wherein the plurality of cations, the anion, the molecule, and the base are solutes that are dissolved in the solvent; each cation of the plurality of cations is a metal cation or an ammonium cation; the molecule is a cannabinoid; the solvent is not water; the solvent has a solubility in water at 37 degrees Celsius of at least 25 grams per liter; each cation of the plurality of cations has a net charge of 1, 2, or 3; the anion has a net charge of ?1; the molecule lacks a net charge; the base has a net charge of ?1; the composition has a molar concentration for the anion, the molecule, the base, and each cation of the plurality of cations; the composition has an equivalent concentration for each cation of the plurality of cations, which is equal to the molar concentration of a cation multiplied by the net charge of the same cation; the composi
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NATURAL EXTRACTION SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: C. Russell THOMAS, Douglas G. METCALF
  • Publication number: 20240092752
    Abstract: Various aspects of this disclosure relate to gas phase methods to decarboxylate cannabinoid carboxylic acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: NATURAL EXTRACTION SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: C. Russell THOMAS, Matthew M. DePalo
  • Patent number: 11820959
    Abstract: Various aspects of the disclosure relate to methods and systems for extracting plant oil from plant material. A system may comprise a microwave emitter, an extraction chamber, and a cooling chamber. Microwave radiation emitted by the microwave emitter may dielectrically heat a microwave absorbing agent, which may heat the plant oil of the plant material. Plant oil of the plant material may be volatized in the extraction chamber and may be directed into the cooling chamber to be condensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: NATURAL EXTRACTION SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: C. Russell Thomas
  • Publication number: 20230355769
    Abstract: Various aspects of this disclosure relate to a composition, comprising a liquid phase that consists of chemical species that comprise tetrahydrocannabinol, one or more flavyliums, and a solvent, wherein each chemical species of the liquid phase has a concentration in the liquid phase; the tetrahydrocannabinol is dissolved in the liquid phase at a concentration of at least 0.1 percent and no greater than 8 percent by mass; each flavylium of the one or more flavyliums is a substituted 2-phenylchromenylium that consists of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms; the solvent is miscible with water; and the liquid phase comprises the solvent at a greater concentration by mass than any other chemical species of the liquid phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Natural Extraction Systems, LLC
    Inventor: C. Russell Thomas
  • Publication number: 20230338331
    Abstract: Various aspects of this disclosure relate to a composition, comprising a liquid phase that consists of chemical species that comprise tetrahydrocannabinol, one or more flavyliums, and a solvent, wherein each chemical species of the liquid phase has a concentration in the liquid phase; the tetrahydrocannabinol is dissolved in the liquid phase at a concentration of at least 0.1 percent and no greater than 8 percent by mass; each flavylium of the one or more flavyliums is a substituted 2-phenylchromenylium that consists of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms; the solvent is miscible with water; and the liquid phase comprises the solvent at a greater concentration by mass than any other chemical species of the liquid phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Natural Extraction Systems, LLC
    Inventor: C. Russell Thomas
  • Publication number: 20230312502
    Abstract: Various aspects of this patent document relate to the rapid purification of cannabinoids by vaporization and condensation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Natural Extraction Systems, LLC
    Inventors: C. Russell Thomas, Matthew M. DePalo
  • Publication number: 20230226461
    Abstract: Various aspects of this patent document relate to a method to extract an oil from a plant material using an apparatus by first exposing the plant material to a heated gas stream at a temperature sufficient to volatilize the oil from the plant material, and then rapidly cooling the gas stream to liquefy the oil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Natural Extraction Systems, LLC
    Inventor: C. Russell Thomas
  • Patent number: 11702397
    Abstract: Various aspects of this patent document relate to the rapid purification of cannabinoids by vaporization and condensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NATURAL EXTRACTION SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: C. Russell Thomas, Matthew M. DePalo
  • Publication number: 20230190670
    Abstract: This patent document discloses compositions comprising novel combinations of cannabinoids, terpenes, and thermal degradation products that can be obtained, for example, by the vapor-phase decarboxylation of a cannabis extract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Natural Extraction Systems, LLC
    Inventor: C. Russell Thomas
  • Patent number: 11643402
    Abstract: Various aspects of this disclosure relate to gas phase methods to decarboxylate cannabinoid carboxylic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: NATURAL EXTRACTION SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: C. Russell Thomas, Matthew M. DePalo
  • Publication number: 20230101492
    Abstract: 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: NATURAL EXTRACTION SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: C. Russell THOMAS
  • Publication number: 20230076088
    Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to gas-phase methods to distill molecules from a composition that is suspended in a gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: NATURAL EXTRACTION SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: C. Russell Thomas, Douglas G. METCALF
  • Publication number: 20220396540
    Abstract: Various aspects of this patent document relate to compositions and methods to purify cannabinoids by crystallization in a water-miscible liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: Natural Extraction Systems, LLC
    Inventors: C. Russell Thomas, Douglas G. Metcalf
  • Publication number: 20220387376
    Abstract: Various aspects of this patent document relate to cannabinoids that are dissolved in glycerine in the presence of the cosolvent ethanol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: C. Russell Thomas, Douglas G. Metcalf
  • Publication number: 20220370402
    Abstract: Various aspects of this disclosure relate to a composition, comprising a liquid phase that consists of chemical species that comprise a solvent and solutes, wherein: each solute of the solutes is dissolved in the solvent of the liquid phase; each chemical species of the liquid phase has a concentration by mass in the liquid phase; the concentration by mass of the solvent in the liquid phase is greater than the concentration by mass of each solute of the liquid phase; the solvent is glycerol; the solutes comprise a cannabinoid; the liquid phase has a pressure and temperature; the cannabinoid has a solubility in glycerol at the pressure and temperature; the concentration by mass of the cannabinoid in the liquid phase is greater than the solubility of the cannabinoid in glycerol at the pressure and temperature; the composition is formulated for oral consumption; and the composition comprises at least 0.1 and no greater than 6 food calories per gram of the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: NATURAL EXTRACTION SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventor: C. Russell THOMAS
  • Publication number: 20220280444
    Abstract: Various aspects of this disclosure relate to compositions comprising (i) one or more decarboxylated cannabinoids and (ii) either (a) cellulose I, (b) nucleic acids that comprise one or more nucleotide sequences that encode a geranyl-pyrophosphate-olivetolic acid geranyltransferase, (c) protein that comprises one or more amino acid sequences that encode a geranyl-pyrophosphate-olivetolic acid geranyltransferase, (d) two of a, b, and c, or (e) each of a, b, and c.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventor: C. Russell Thomas
  • Patent number: 11406913
    Abstract: Various aspects of this patent document relate to a method to extract an oil from a plant material using an apparatus by first exposing the plant material to a heated gas stream at a temperature sufficient to volatilize the oil from the plant material, and then rapidly cooling the gas stream to liquefy the oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Natural Extraction Systems, LLC
    Inventor: C. Russell Thomas
  • Publication number: 20220233404
    Abstract: Various aspects of this patent document relate cannabinoid anions including methods to produce cannabinoid anions, compositions comprising cannabinoid anions, containers that contain compositions comprising cannabinoid anions, and methods to consume cannabinoid anions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: C. Russell Thomas, Douglas G. Metcalf
  • Publication number: 20220015397
    Abstract: This patent document discloses combinations of cannabinoids, terpenes, terpene oxidation products, and stereoisomers of cannabinoids and terpene oxidation products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: C. Russell Thomas, Douglas G. Metcalf