PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950534
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["435", "252200"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein are methods of increasing nitrogen fixation in a non-leguminous plant. The methods can comprise exposing the plant to a plurality of bacteria. Each member of the plurality comprises one or more genetic variations introduced into one or more genes or non-coding polynucleotides of the bacteria's nitrogen fixation or assimilation genetic regulatory network, such that the bacteria are capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen in the presence of exogenous nitrogen. The bacteria are not intergeneric microorganisms. Additionally, the bacteria, in planta, produce 1% or more of the fixed nitrogen in the plant.

Claim (Index 1):
A method of producing one or more bacteria, comprising:\n (a) isolating bacteria from tissue or soil of a first plant; (b) introducing genetic variation into one or more of the bacteria to produce one or more variant bacteria; (c) exposing a plurality of plants to the variant bacteria; (d) isolating bacteria from tissue or soil of one of the plurality of plants, wherein the plant from which the bacteria is isolated has an improved trait relative to other plants in the plurality of plants; and (e) repeating steps (b) to (d) with bacteria isolated in step (d).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87273
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15636595', '14382340', '11947535', '11630396', '14127863']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5499697587434682
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6139330402760445
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5563660868967258
- Mean Citation Score: 337.40271199999995
- Max Citation Score: 706.6523
- Similarity Product: 458.77111419124606

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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