PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15746666
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["514", "04400A"]

Abstract:
The invention provides a method for detecting a low-virulence infection in a patient, by distinguishing true infections from false positives. The method comprises testing for the presence or amount of commensal microorganism(s) in a patient sample, and in particular, the commensal microorganism is one that may be causative of a low-virulence infection. Since testing for commensal microorganisms will lead to a large number of false-positives due to frequent sample contamination, the sample is also tested to discriminate true chronic infection from these false positives. In accordance with the invention, false positives are discriminated by evaluating a nucleic acid profile from the sample.

Claim (Index 56):
The method of any one of  claims 37  to  54 , wherein the sample is tested for the presence of level of one or more of  Staphylococcus  sp.,  Corynebacterium  sp.,  Lactobacillus  sp.,  Pseudomonas  sp.,  Enterococcus  sp.,  Streptococcus  sp.,  Bacillus  sp.,  Citrobacter  sp.,  E. coli, Moraxella  sp.,  Haemophilus  sp.,  Neisseria  sp.,  Clostridium  sp.,  Enterobacter  sp., and  Klebsiella  sp.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72727
- Patent Class: 514.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13376225', '14867174', '14989243', '15237364', '12901467']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.704307610358237
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.505970165392099
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6844738658616232
- Mean Citation Score: 201.84022200000004
- Max Citation Score: 217.73677
- Similarity Product: 148.3637717848849

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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