US Patent Issued to MYCEL on Sept. 23 for "Method for manufacturing mycelium mat into leather by using pH-controlled tannic acid" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,654, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MYCEL INC. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Method for manufacturing mycelium mat into leather by using pH-controlled tannic acid" was invented by Yeon Woo Jeong (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Won Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing mycelium mat into leather by using pH-controlled tannic acid. The method comprises the following steps: (1) inactivating the mycelium mat; (2) infiltrating the mycelium mat with a polysaccharide solution; (3) treating the polysaccharide-infused mycelium mat with a tannic acid solution; a...