Daniel S Flagg

US Patent:

20120227899, Sep 13, 2012

Filed:

Mar 5, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/411877

Inventors:

Gavin McIntyre - Troy NY, US
Eben Bayer - Troy NY, US
Daniel Flagg - Schenectady NY, US

International Classification:

B32B 37/24
C12N 1/14

US Classification:

156242, 4352541

Abstract:

The process of growing a homogeneous polymer matrix comprising the steps of growing a viable mycelium in a liquid suspension; extracting mycelium from the liquid suspension; thereafter incubating the mycelium for a period of time sufficient to induce mycelium cohesion and to form a solid material; and thereafter drying the solid material to remove moisture and to inactivate the mycelium.

US Patent:

20120225471, Sep 6, 2012

Filed:

Mar 2, 2011

Appl. No.:

12/932640

Inventors:

Gavin McIntyre - Troy NY, US
Allison Poetzsch - Ravena NY, US
Sue Van Hook - Cambridge NY, US
Daniel Flagg - Schenectady NY, US

International Classification:

C12N 1/14

US Classification:

4352541

Abstract:

A plant essential oil emulsion is used to disinfect the raw material used in making a self-supporting composite material formed by the growth of the hyphae of a fungus into and about the discrete particles of the raw material.