PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861252
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["506", "007000"]

Abstract:
This invention generally relates to natural gas and methylotrophic energy generation, bio-generated fuels and microbiology. In alternative embodiments, the invention provides nutrient amendments and microbial compositions, e.g., consortia, that are both specifically optimized to stimulate methanogenesis, or for “methylotrophic” or other conversions. In alternative embodiments, the invention provides methods to develop nutrient amendments and microbial compositions that are both specifically optimized to stimulate methanogenesis in a given reservoir. The invention also provides methods for the evaluation of potentially damaging biomass formation and scale precipitation resulting from the addition of nutrient amendments. In other embodiments, the invention provides methods for simulating biogas in sub-surface conditions using a computational model.

Claim (Index 79):
A method of enhancing a biochemical process, the method comprising:\n preparing a synthetic consortium by:\n (i) obtaining two or more samples from at least two different sources of biogenic material, wherein each sample comprises a plurality of microbes; \n (ii) determining a microbial composition of each sample, wherein an abundance of each observed microbe is recorded for each sample; \n (iii) performing a correlation analysis of the abundances of microbes in the samples; \n (iv) identifying at least two microbes from among the plurality of microbes, wherein the abundance correlation between the at least two microbes is greater than to other microbes in the samples; and \n (v) combining purified isolates of the at least two microbes to form the synthetic consortium; \n wherein abundances of the identified microbes in the synthetic consortium are different than the abundances recorded for each sample; and wherein the at least two microbes participate in a common metabolic pathway of the biochemical process, such that, when added to a native microbial community of a substrate, the synthetic consortium increases a rate of the biochemical process of the substrate relative to a rate of the biochemical process in absence of the synthetic consortium.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86364
- Patent Class: 506.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13504120', '13162097', '14652957', '14652945', '13177429']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5817526626161512
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.7470403497714717
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5982814313316833
- Mean Citation Score: 435.871712
- Max Citation Score: 893.1395
- Similarity Product: 836.6945769129993

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

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