ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,851, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Metrc LLC (Lakeland, Fla.).

"Method of data driven regulation for cannabis" was invented by Dilek Dagdelen Uysal (Lakeland, Fla.) and Jeffrey Lane Wells (Lakeland, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system in accordance with the subject invention establishes industry norms for every step in the production, cultivation, harvest, and packaging process for a regulated industry to follow with respect to a regulated product. An embodiment relates to the regulated product cannabis where product is accurately recorded into the system is legal while any product that is not recorded into the...