Patents by Inventor Lori Ann MacDonald

Lori Ann MacDonald has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Mushrooms
    Patent number: 6655081
    Abstract: A substrate for mushroom cultivation comprises a polyene fungicide, in particular, natamycin. Mushrooms cultivated in such substrates can be harvested earlier than mushrooms cultivated in substrates which do not include polyene fungicides. Alternatively, mushrooms grown in a substrate comprising a polyene fungicide achieve a greater size than mushrooms grown for the same amount of time in a substrate which does not include a polyene fungicide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignees: DSM N.V., Sylvan, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacobus Stark, Mark Peter Wach, Edith Magda Lucia Geijp, Ferdinand Theodorus Jozef Van Rijn, Lori Ann MacDonald, Jeffrey Wayne Smathers
  • Materials for mycoculture
    Patent number: 6298598
    Abstract: The present invention provides improved mushroom cultivation materials which are amenable to improved uniformity of application to mushroom beds. The invention features such materials having particulate indicator therein having a color which is discernable from the organic substrates of the cultivation materials. The application may be followed under incandescent, fluorescent or ultraviolet light or in accordance with other means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Sylvan America, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Peter Wach, Richard W. Kerrigan, Lori Ann MacDonald, Barbara Jean McAuley