US Patent Issued to MOGU on April 29 for "Method of producing fungal mats and materials made therefrom" (Dutch, Italian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,617, issued on April 29, was assigned to MOGU S.R.L. (Inarzo, Italy).

"Method of producing fungal mats and materials made therefrom" was invented by Antoni Gandia (Ontinyent, Spain), Maurizio Montalti (Amsterdam) and Stefano Babbini (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for obtaining a fungal mat comprising the steps of: a) inoculating and growing a filamentous fungal species onto a solid nutritive medium comprising a lignocellulosic material, thereby obtaining a solid nutritive medium colonized by said fungal species; b) mixing said colonized nutritive medium with water or with an aqueous sol...