ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,085, issued on June 30.
"Bioactive honey production environment and method" was invented by David Munday (Ashmore, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificially-created honey-yielding environment is established, including a hive and an associated flora cell, within which first and second plant populations cohabit. Within the cell, honey-producing insects from the hive are permitted to forage. One of the populations has been artificially introduced. The other may be indigenous to the cell. The first plant population serves as a primary source of nectar which yields bioactive honey and the second serves as a source of a nutr...