PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16394114
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["435", "161000"]

Abstract:
An engineered bacterium for producing ethanol from one or more carbohydrates is disclosed. The bacterium can be made by (a) inactivating within a  Lactobacillus casei  bacterium one or more endogenous genes encoding a lactate dehydrogenase; or (b) introducing into a  Lactobacillus casei  bacterium one or more exogenous genes encoding a pyruvate decarboxylase and one or more exogenous genes encoding an alcohol dehydrogenase II; or (c) performing both steps (a) and (b). The resulting engineered bacterium produces significantly more ethanol than the wild-type  Lactobacillus casei  bacterium, and can be used in producing ethanol from a substrate such as biomass that includes carbohydrates.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the exogenous gene encoding a pyruvate decarboxylase comprises the gene of  Zymomonas mobilis  that encodes for pyruvate decarboxylase (Pdc), and the exogenous gene encoding an alcohol dehydrogenase II comprises the gene of  Zymomonas mobilis  that encodes for alcohol dehydrogenase II (AdhII).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91803
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15037877', '13372456', '13375882', '13882465', '13882460']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6299842365178163
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4992926053636513
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6169150734023998
- Mean Citation Score: 258.105642
- Max Citation Score: 270.4628
- Similarity Product: 212.14740553779603

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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