US Patent Issued to Vermont Wildwoods on March 18 for "Spalted wood products and devices, systems, compositions, and methods for production" (Vermont Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,852, issued on March 18, was assigned to Vermont Wildwoods (Marshfield, Vt.).

"Spalted wood products and devices, systems, compositions, and methods for production" was invented by Parker Nichols (Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides for artificially produced spalted wood products and devices, systems, compositions, and methods for production. A spalt inoculum mixture that includes a fungal component is developed and incubated with a hardwood substrate under controlled conditions to generate naturally modified produced spalted wood from the hardwood substrate. The devices, systems, and methods incre...