ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,105, issued on May 5, was assigned to Food Industry Research and Development Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for producing mycelial sheet" was invented by Hsiao-Ping Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Tzu Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shyue-Tsong Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Han-Yun Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wan-Rou Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Sung-Yuan Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a mycelial sheet includes: subjecting a fungus to static cultivation in a liquid medium containing a cellulose, so as to allow the fungus to form the mycelial sheet on a surface of the liquid medium; and collecting the mycelial she...