Bacillus velezensis and use thereof

Jianwen Liang, Guangdong (CN); Jie Wang, Guangdong (CN); Kejing Wang, Guangdong (CN); Lin Wang, Guangdong (CN); Renyan Liu, Guangdong (CN); Xianzhi Jiang, Guangdong (CN); Xiaoqin Ji, Guangdong (CN); Xintong Yu, Guangdong (CN); Xue Wang, Guangdong (CN)

USPTO: us-12648569 · published 2026-06-09 · patents · A01N 63/22· A01P 1/00· A01P 21/00

Bacillus velezensis and use thereof

Xue Wang, Guangdong (CN) , Jianwen Liang, Guangdong (CN) , Xintong Yu, Guangdong (CN) , Xiaoqin Ji, Guangdong (CN) , Jie Wang, Guangdong (CN) , Renyan Liu, Guangdong (CN) , Lin Wang, Guangdong (CN) , Xianzhi Jiang, Guangdong (CN)

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Kejing Wang, Guangdong (CN)

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Pith reviewed 2026-06-11 01:31 UTC · model grok-4.3

classification patents A01N 63/22A01P 1/00A01P 21/00

keywords Bacillus velezensismicrobial compositionfreeze-dried bacteriaagricultural formulationhorticultural usebacterial straindeposit number

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The pith

A patent claims a composition of freeze-dried Bacillus velezensis M173 with agricultural carriers and additives.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The filing describes a microbial composition built around one specific strain of Bacillus velezensis. That strain, called M173 and deposited as GDMCC No. 61434, is supplied in freeze-dried form. The composition also contains any of several standard diluents, carriers, emulsifiers, preservatives, or adjuvants that are already accepted for farm or garden use. A reader would care because such products are positioned as ready-to-use bacterial formulations for crop or plant applications. The central object is the deposited strain itself, presented in a stabilized, dry state.

Core claim

The paper claims a composition comprising Bacillus velezensis M173, wherein the Bacillus velezensis M173 was deposited with the Guangdong Microbial Culture Collection Center with a deposit number of GDMCC No. 61434, wherein the composition further comprises an agriculturally or horticulturally acceptable diluent, filler, solvent, spontaneous promoter, carrier, emulsifier, dispersant, preservative, antifreezing agent, thickener, adjuvant, or any combination thereof, and wherein the Bacillus velezensis M173 is freeze-dried.

What carries the argument

The freeze-dried Bacillus velezensis M173 strain carrying deposit number GDMCC No. 61434, which functions as the active microbial ingredient in the claimed formulation.

If this is right

The formulation can be stored and shipped as a dry powder for later rehydration and field application.
The listed additives allow the same strain to be delivered through multiple product formats such as sprays, seed coatings, or soil drenches.
The deposit number provides a fixed reference point for regulatory or commercial use of this exact isolate.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

If the strain shows plant-growth or disease-suppression activity in separate tests, the composition could serve as a carrier for those effects.
The patent does not specify any particular biological activity, so downstream work would still be needed to determine effective doses or target crops.

Load-bearing premise

The specific strain possesses distinguishing properties that make the freeze-dried composition novel and suitable for agricultural or horticultural use.

What would settle it

Sequence data showing the deposited strain is genetically identical to an earlier published Bacillus velezensis isolate, or viability counts showing the bacteria do not survive the described freeze-drying process, would undermine the composition claim.

read the original abstract

1 . A composition comprising Bacillus velezensis M173, wherein the Bacillus velezensis M173 was deposited with the Guangdong Microbial Culture Collection Center with a deposit number of GDMCC No. 61434, wherein the composition further comprises an agriculturally or horticulturally acceptable diluent, filler, solvent, spontaneous promoter, carrier, emulsifier, dispersant, preservative, antifreezing agent, thickener, adjuvant, or any combination thereof, and wherein the Bacillus velezensis M173 is freeze-dried.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

This is a bare US patent composition claim for a deposited Bacillus velezensis strain in freeze-dried form with standard excipients; no data, methods, or novelty arguments appear.

read the letter

This patent application claims a composition of Bacillus velezensis M173 (GDMCC 61434), freeze-dried, plus any of the usual agricultural diluents, carriers, or adjuvants. That is the entire content visible in the abstract. No experiments, no strain characterization, and no comparison to existing Bacillus velezensis products are supplied. The filing therefore functions as a legal instrument for commercial protection rather than a report of new biology or performance data. The specific deposit number and the freeze-dried specification are the only concrete elements added. Everything else follows routine language for this class of agricultural microbial products. The absence of any supporting results means the asserted utility cannot be checked. A reader cannot tell whether the strain differs meaningfully from prior isolates or whether the freeze-dried form confers any practical advantage. The document is internally consistent as a claim but contains no evidence that would allow an independent assessment of patentability or field performance. It belongs to patent attorneys and companies filing for IP coverage in the Bacillus-based biopesticide or biofertilizer space. A researcher looking for new strain properties, genetic details, or efficacy numbers will find nothing usable. I would not bring it to a reading group, would not cite it in scientific work, and would not send it for scientific peer review. It is a standard composition patent filing and should be evaluated on legal and commercial grounds, not as research.

Referee Report

1 major / 0 minor

Summary. The manuscript is a US patent application whose sole claim is a composition comprising the deposited strain Bacillus velezensis M173 (GDMCC No. 61434) in freeze-dried form together with any agriculturally or horticulturally acceptable diluent, filler, solvent, carrier, emulsifier, preservative, or combination thereof.

Significance. A validated, novel strain with demonstrated agricultural utility could be relevant to biocontrol or plant-growth-promotion literature, but the complete absence of strain characterization, efficacy data, or comparative results prevents any assessment of significance.

major comments (1)

[Claim 1] Claim 1 (the sole claim): the functional utility asserted by the title cannot be evaluated because the text supplies neither methods, phenotypic characterization, nor any efficacy or stability data for the deposited strain.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for reviewing this US patent application. We clarify that patent applications follow legal standards for claim drafting and enablement rather than the evidentiary requirements of a research article. The sole claim defines a specific composition using a deposited strain; supporting characterization or efficacy data, if required for enablement, would appear in the full specification (not reproduced in the claim text provided for review). We address the major comment below.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: Claim 1 (the sole claim): the functional utility asserted by the title cannot be evaluated because the text supplies neither methods, phenotypic characterization, nor any efficacy or stability data for the deposited strain.

Authors: The title indicates the general subject matter (Bacillus velezensis and uses thereof), but the claim itself is limited to the composition of the deposited strain in freeze-dried form with acceptable additives. Under US patent practice, a composition claim of this type does not require the claim text to recite methods, phenotypic data, or efficacy results; such information, where necessary to support enablement or utility, resides in the specification. The public deposit (GDMCC No. 61434) allows third parties to access the strain for independent verification. No data are supplied in the claim because none are needed to define the claimed subject matter. We therefore see no basis for revision on this point. revision: no

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged

No significant circularity

full rationale

The document is a bare legal composition claim for a deposited bacterial strain in freeze-dried form plus standard excipients. It contains no equations, derivations, predictions, fitted parameters, or self-citation chains. No load-bearing scientific steps exist that could reduce to inputs by construction, so the circularity score is 0.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

This is a patent document asserting a composition claim. No free parameters, mathematical axioms, or invented scientific entities are introduced; the only external reference is the culture-collection deposit, which is a standard procedural step.

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A composition comprising Bacillus velezensis M173 (deposited as GDMCC No. 61434), wherein the Bacillus velezensis M173 is freeze-dried, further comprising an agriculturally or horticulturally acceptable diluent, filler, solvent, spontaneous promoter, carrier, emulsifier, dispersant, preservative, antifreezing agent, thickener, adjuvant, or any combination thereof.

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supports: The theorem supports part of the paper's argument, but the paper may add assumptions or extra steps.
extends: The paper goes beyond the formal theorem; the theorem is a base layer rather than the whole result.
uses: The paper appears to rely on the theorem as machinery.
contradicts: The paper's claim conflicts with a theorem or certificate in the canon.
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