ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,409, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MycoWorks Inc. (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Mycelium growth bed with perforation layer and related method for creating a uniform sheet of mycelium from a solid-state medium" was invented by Philip Ross (San Francisco), Matthew L. Scullin (San Francisco), Nicholas Wenner (Sebastopol, Calif.), Jordan Chase (Oakland, Calif.), Quinn Miller (Berkeley, Calif.), Ryan Salditos (San Francisco) and Phil McGaughy (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mycelium growth bed for growing a solid substrate-bound mycelium through which the mycelium composite is easily and readily removed. This is achieved t...