ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,687, issued on May 26, was assigned to Nature Recombined Sciences Inc. (West Vancouver, Canada).

"Aqueous hop extracts and their use as antimicrobial agents" was invented by Leonard Sarna (West Vancouver, Canada), Kian-Guan Lim (West Vancouver, Canada), Mingyang Sun (West Vancouver, Canada), Silvia Cardona (West Vancouver, Canada), John Sorensen (West Vancouver, Canada) and Anna Motnenko (West Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is the preparation of an aqueous hop extract and a boiling water hop extract prepared from dried hop cones that were ground prior to extraction. As discussed below, extracts were ...