PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16024320
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["800", "298000"]

Abstract:
This application relates to methods and materials for providing a benefit to a seed or seedling of an agricultural plant (e.g., an agricultural grass plant), or the agricultural plant derived from the seed or seedling. For example, this application provides purified bacterial populations that include novel seed-origin bacterial endophytes, and synthetic combinations of seeds and/or seedlings (e.g., cereal seeds and/or seedlings) with heterologous seed-derived bacterial endophytes.

Claim (Index 93):
A synthetic combination comprising a purified bacterial population in association with a seed of a cereal agricultural plant, wherein the purified bacterial population comprises a seed bacterial endophyte of the genus  Enterobacter  that is heterologous to the seed, and has a 16S nucleic acid sequence that is at least 99% identical to a 16S nucleic acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 595, 545, and 548, and is capable of producing an auxin or acetoin, wherein the endophyte is heterologously disposed to the seed in an amount effective to colonize a plant germinated from the synthetic combination, wherein the plant germinated from the inoculated seed has a benefit as compared to a plant germinated from a reference seed sowed under the same conditions, wherein the benefit is selected from the group consisting of: a larger amount of lateral roots and root-hairs, increased shoot length, increased seedling weight, increased shoot biomass, increased nitrogen use efficiency, and increased root biomass.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 76.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.60417
- Patent Class: 800.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15436609', '16024050', '15436592', '16024031', '16024029']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7073062264491773
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.7395847206797832
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7105340758722379
- Mean Citation Score: 854.5396420000003
- Max Citation Score: 859.33685
- Similarity Product: 841.1767356226326

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

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