PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980920
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["435", "007320"]

Abstract:
Definitive diagnosis and early start of treatment cannot be made for tuberculosis since conventional methods for detecting a  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  complex require a long time plus enormous labor and expense. Because detection is difficult to perform directly from a biological sample, if the biological sample contains no or a very small amount of the  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  complex-specific secretory protein, there is a risk infection with the  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  complex will be missed. The present kit having a treatment container and immunological assay apparatus addresses these long-standing needs for more rapidly and conveniently detecting a  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  complex, without culturing a biological sample that may contain the  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  complex, in which a biological sample can be subjected to a heat-treatment, in the container, whereby  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  complex-specific secretory protein that may be extracellularly secreted can be detected by the immunological assay apparatus.

Claim (Index 24):
A kit for detection of a  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  complex that secretes a  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  complex-specific protein MPB64/MPT64, comprising at least\n a treatment container in which a biological sample to be tested for the  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  complex is subjected to a heat-treatment, wherein the heat-treatment of the biological sample is carried out at 40\u00b0 C. to 60\u00b0 C. for 15 to 60 minutes whereby the  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  complex, if present, extracellularly secretes the  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  complex-specific protein MPB64/MPT64; and an immunological assay apparatus for detecting the presence of secreted  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  complex-specific protein MPB64/MPT64 following the heat-treatment to thereby detect for the presence of the  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  complex that secrets a  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  complex-specific protein MPB64/MPT64.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78824
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12810217', '16083807', '14434415', '10061036', '11646299']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6034727729735464
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5473569014471265
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5978611858209044
- Mean Citation Score: 269.876218
- Max Citation Score: 429.08698
- Similarity Product: 294.3086763387191

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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