PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16262582
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["424", "234100"]

Abstract:
A live attenuated  Edwardsiella ictaluri  bacterium lacking a viable gene encoding a functional evpB protein and a method of using the same to protect fish against infection from virulent  Edwardsiella ictaluri . The methods and compositions for protecting fish against infection from virulent  Edwardsiella ictaluri  comprising administering to a fish a therapeutically effective amount of an attenuated  Edwardsiella ictaluri  bacterium lacking a viable gene encoding a functional protein selected from the group consisting of evpB, fur and hfq. The bacterium may include an insertion and/or deletion mutation in the gene. The fish include catfish, preferably catfish fingerling or a catfish fry. The composition may be delivered via immersion delivery, an injection delivery, an oral delivery, or combinations thereof.

Claim (Index 7):
The composition of  claim 6 , wherein the composition is formulated for delivery to fish by the method selected from the group consisting of an immersion delivery, an injection delivery, an oral delivery, or combinations thereof.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89552
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15257607', '15171367', '13261536', '13940125', '14921578']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.825949394047429
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6399829149165871
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8073527461343448
- Mean Citation Score: 520.500628
- Max Citation Score: 818.18164
- Similarity Product: 553.586801349709

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

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