…make glacial acidic acid by distilling with sulfuric acid…
I have read many patents closely, though I really don’t care so much about chemistry as I do physics so I give it more focus.
The salt form would not be for smoking, but when you finish the reaction and re-create the acidic form, that process also is not 100% efficient… so there will still be residual metal in the final product. 
Edit: Cost wise, since you mentioned it, sodium phenoxide for 250g (best I can find) is $348 vs sodium hydroxide I can get 128lbs of food grade for $485…
In any lab I have even been in with the cannabis/hemp industry, they will all side with cost effective over anything.
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I was pointing out that the commonly used pH values obtained by base extraction, you are creating mixtures of phenolate salts as well. And the purple tells me you are well into the correct pH zone to do so. but that is another synthetic process and we certainly do not need to discuss it.
My advice is to stick to the hydrocarbon, it is a playing field where none know what is going on, but it is almost impossible to make a mistake .
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Damn, I was doing this before the patent. lol
When you had and “in-house HPLC for acidic testing” were you testing for the anion or the acid? Above, you mention acids and bases tracking every ten minutes. Just wondering your assay for acidic cannabinoids in base, i.e., the anionic form.
Also,
“Nothing is being put in its place - even temporarily during the process - then consequently removed and replaced with a non-plant derived molecule.”
When you refer to the term “Organic” do you mean in the sense of “organic chemistry” or in the sense of USDA certified Organic? Your reference to “alkane washes” suggest you mean the latter.
Sometimes one might like to prepare pure state RCOOH for spectroscopic or. X-ray diffraction for instance, and the chemist might choose to use HCl to acidify or NaOH to basify a polar protic solvent. But that is for convenience. If one were preparing RCOOH to satisfy USDA certified “Organic” food specification the choices would be otherwise.
Say a plant took up phosphate (H2PO4− or HPO42−) from the soil, and incorporated it into DNA. When does it become a “plant derived molecule” in your scheme of thought?