ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,710, issued on July 8, was assigned to 23andMe Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Scalable pipeline for local ancestry inference" was invented by Chuong Do (Mountain View, Calif.), Eric Yves Jean-Marc Durand (Sceaux, France), John Michael Macpherson (Santa Ana, Calif.), Brian Thomas Naughton (Mountain View, Calif.) and Joanna Louise Mountain (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ancestry deconvolution includes obtaining unphased genotype data of an individual; phasing, using one or more processors, the unphased genotype data to generate phased haplotype data; using a learning machine to classify portions of the phased haplotype d...