US Patent Issued to BLACK BOAR TRUFFLE on July 22 for "Rapid isolation, cultivation methods and utilities of truffle fungi" (Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,867, issued on July 22, was assigned to BLACK BOAR TRUFFLE LLC (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Rapid isolation, cultivation methods and utilities of truffle fungi" was invented by Gary A. Strobel (Bozeman, Mont.) and Kelly W. Gaisford (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of farming, domesticating, or cultivating truffle fungi, including isolation and cultivation methods for producing pure truffle fungi, or mini-truffles, typically a Tuber spp. or an Iamai spp. Examples of truffle include Tuber melanosporum, Tuber magnatum, Tuber aestivum, Tuber uncinatum, Tuber borchii, Imaia spp., Tuber macrosporum, Tuber gibbosum, Tuber oregon...