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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2017
Mycoworks, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Philip Ross, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas Wenner, Sebastopol, CA (US);
Caitlin Moorleghen, Oakland, CA (US);
Mycoworks, Inc., Emeryville, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of forming fungal materials and fungal objects from those fungal materials, the method comprising the steps of growing a first fungal tissue in contact with a nutritive vehicle; supplying a porous material in contact with said first fungal tissue; directing growth of said fungal tissue through said porous material such that a portion of said fungal tissue comprises a first fungal material having first fungal hyphae; optionally incorporating composite material; directing a change in the composition or growth pattern of at least some of said first fungal hyphae; separating at least a portion of the first fungal material from said nutritive vehicle; obtaining a second fungal material having second fungal hyphae; and forming a fungal object by encouraging fused growth between said first fungal material and said second fungal material and optionally incorporating composite material.