US Patent Issued to The Fynder Group on Aug. 12 for "Filamentous fungal biomats, methods of their production and methods of their use" (Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,003, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Fynder Group Inc. (Chicago).

"Filamentous fungal biomats, methods of their production and methods of their use" was invented by Mark A. Kozubal (Bozeman, Mont.), Richard E. Macur (Manhattan, Mont.) and Yuval C. Avniel (Missoula, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel method of growing fungi is disclosed which uses an engineered artificial media and produces high density filamentous fungi biomats that can be harvested with a minimum of processing and from which fungal products such as antibiotics, proteins, and lipids can be isolated, the method resulting in lowered fungus cultivation ...