PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15965060
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["800", "298000"]

Abstract:
The present invention discloses a non-GM method for producing a crop exhibiting improved traits compared to a control population of plants of the same crop species comprising the steps of providing a population of plants, exposing said population of plants to a predetermined light treatment regime by irradiating with artificial light in a specific wavelength range, monitoring at least one trait of said plants of step (b), comparing to said control population and selecting at least the top about 0.5%, preferably 1-2% plants having the best improved trait of said plants of previous step, propagating at least one subsequent generation of said at least 0.5%, preferably 1-2%, best improved trait plants, optionally repeating previous steps for least one subsequent generation, thereby obtaining a crop exhibiting an improved trait, wherein the improved trait is inheritable for at least one more generation, preferably for two or more generations, more preferably for 3 to 5 generations, and even more preferably for 6 to 8 generations.

Claim (Index 1):
A non-GM method for producing a plant exhibiting improved traits compared to a control population or variety of plants of the same plant species comprising the steps of:\n (a) providing a population or variety of plants; (b) exposing said population or variety of plants to a predetermined light treatment regime by irradiating with artificial light in the presence of ambient daylight, characterized by luminous flux units of between about 1.5 to about 3000 lux, particularly from about 100 to about 2000 lux, every day for a duration of 2 to 6 weeks from sowing, wherein the predetermined light treatment regime of step (b) is selected from the group consisting of\n (i) irradiating with artificial light of wavelength in the range of from about 380 nm to about 750 nm (visible range) for a period of from about 5 minutes to about 2.5 hours at selected times during the day, \n (ii) irradiating with artificial light of wavelength in the range of from about 450 nm to about 490 nm (blue light) for a period of from about 30 minutes to about 2 hrs starting at sunrise, \n (iii) irradiating with artificial light of wavelength in the range of from about 600 nm to about 700 nm (red light) for a period of from about 30 minutes, to about 60 minutes, starting about 30 min. before sunset, and optionally continuing about 30 minutes after sunset; \n (iv) irradiating with artificial light of wavelength in the range of from about 450 nm to about 490 nm (blue light) for a period of about 30 minutes starting at sunrise followed by irradiation with artificial light of wavelength in the range of from about 600 nm to about 700 nm (red light) for a period of from about 30 minutes to about 60 minutes, starting 30 min. before sunset and optionally continuing about 30 minutes after sunset, \n or combinations thereof in a consecutive, simultaneous or interchangeable manner, optionally followed by the following steps: (c) monitoring at least one trait of said plants of step (b) and comparing to said control population; (d) selecting at least the top about 0.5%, preferably 1-2% plants having the best improved trait of said plants of step (b) and (c); (e) propagating at least one subsequent generation of said at least 0.5%, preferably 1-2%, best improved trait plants; and (f) optionally repeating steps (b) to (e) on said at least one subsequent generation; thereby obtaining a crop exhibiting improved traits, wherein the improved traits are inheritable for at least one more generation, preferably for two or more generations, more preferably for 3 to 5 generations, and even more preferably for 6 to 8 generations.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21951
- Patent Class: 800.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14916514', '09821879', '13504156', '14114945', '13378536']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4928639266672549
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5094756854302107
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4945251025435505
- Mean Citation Score: 250.62709400000003
- Max Citation Score: 260.8412
- Similarity Product: 158.98008153514866

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

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