ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,615, issued on June 10, was assigned to 23andMe Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Genetic comparisons between grandparents and grandchildren" was invented by Linda Avey (Lafayette, Calif.), Oleksiy Khomenko (Stanford, Calif.), Brian Thomas Naughton (Mountain View, Calif.), Serge Saxonov (Oakland, Calif.), Anne Wojcicki (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Alexander Wong (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Displaying a comparison of genotypic information between relatives is disclosed, including receiving an indication that a first individual is a grandparent, receiving an indication that a second individual is a grandchild of the first ind...