US Patent Issued to MME HOUDSTERMAATSCHAPPIJ on July 21 for "Process and apparatus for growing mycelium sheets" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,271, issued on July 21, was assigned to MME HOUDSTERMAATSCHAPPIJ B.V. (Ammerzoden, Netherlands).

"Process and apparatus for growing mycelium sheets" was invented by Gijsbertus Martinus Rademakers (Hedel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process for growing mycelium sheets. First, a substrate mixture is prepared in a mixer. Then the substrate mixture is applied as substrate layers on shelves of a rack in a cultivation room. The cultivation room is then closed and subsequently the substrate is pasteurized by injecting a pasteurizing medium, such as steam, into the closed cultivation room. In a next step, the substrate mixture...