PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15868591
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["424", "404000"]

Abstract:
A method of enhancing the growth of an animal is provided. The method includes causing the animal to ingest or absorb an effective amount of one or more Fe III complex compounds, including but not limited to Fe III complexes comprising ligands bound to the iron centre selected from amino acids or α-hydroxy acids, o-hydroxy benzoic acids or pyridine-2-carboxylic acids, such as ferric quinate, ferric tyrosine, ferric DOPA and ferric phenylalanine. Compounds which are structural and/or functional variants, derivatives and/or analogs of the foregoing compounds, as further described herein are also disclosed. Methods for inhibiting, reducing, or preventing biofilm formation or buildup on a surface; the treatment of, inhibition of growth of, and inhibition of colonization by, bacteria, both in biological and non-biological environments; disinfecting surfaces, potentiating the effects of antibiotics and other anti-microbial agents, and increasing the sensitivity of bacteria and other microorganisms, to anti-microbial agents are also provided.

Claim (Index 7):
The method of  claim 1 , wherein the enhanced growth of an animal includes enhancing one or more characteristics selected from the group consisting of enhancing body weight or average body weight (ABW), feed intake or average feed intake (AFD), weight gain average weight gain (AWG), and mortality adjusted feed conversion ratio (MFCR).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.70297
- Patent Class: 424.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: closed
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14823340', '15234937', '15816405', '15234941', '15860989']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7418179641643928
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6765897461752444
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.735295142365478
- Mean Citation Score: 394.252104
- Max Citation Score: 661.7289400000002
- Similarity Product: 658.2575602748253

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

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