PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16178438
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["435", "919000"]

Abstract:
This invention provides a fermentation method of producing gellan gum, wherein a certain amount of fermentation broth is retained in the fermentor as a seed for next batch fermentation or transferred to another fermentor as a seed for next batch fermentation in that fermentor. The fermentation method of this invention reduces fermentation cost of gellan gum and lowers contamination risk during seed cultivation.

Claim (Index 5):
A fermentation method according to  claim 1 , characterized in that, the certain amount of fermentation broth is 3%-50% of total volume of the fermentation broth, preferably 4%-25%, most preferably 5-10%.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60976
- Patent Class: 435.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13142412', '11611570', '10617371', '13142396', '13142407']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.605466013684355
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4896290791789688
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5938823202338165
- Mean Citation Score: 187.972718
- Max Citation Score: 203.88177
- Similarity Product: 141.402345505625

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

Dataset: test