ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,281, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to 23andMe Genomics LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Genome sharing" was invented by Brian Lee Hawthorne (San Francisco), Oleksiy Khomenko (Stanford, Calif.), Jeffrey Mellen (San Francisco), Marcela Miyazawa (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Polcari (San Francisco), Jack Tihon (San Francisco), Alexander Wong (Palo Alto, Calif.), Anne Wojcicki (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Linda Avey (Lafayette, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sharing data is disclosed. In some cases, sharing data includes receiving a request to share data from a first account to a second account, receiving an indication of a plurality of ...