US Patent Issued on Aug. 4 for "Dephosphorylation-controlled extraction of phosphorylatable psychoactive alkaloids" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,564, issued on Aug. 4.

"Dephosphorylation-controlled extraction of phosphorylatable psychoactive alkaloids" was invented by Benjamin Lightburn (West Vancouver, Canada), Ryan Moss (Vancouver, Canada) and Lisa Ranken (Lake Country, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to the extraction of psychoactive compounds from fungus for use in medicine. Raw fungus is dried and ground. The solvent used for extraction is methanol or a hydro-methanol mixture, an acidic hydro-methanol mixture, or an alkaline hydro-methanol mixture. The extraction slurry is filtered and pH-adjusted if necessary. The methanol in the solvent is t...