US Patent Issued to 23andMe on March 25 for "Identity-by-descent relatedness based on focal and reference segments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,936, issued on March 25, was assigned to 23andMe Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Identity-by-descent relatedness based on focal and reference segments" was invented by William A. Freyman (Menlo Park, Calif.), Kimberly F. McManus (San Francisco), Suyash S. Shringarpure (Mountain View, Calif.), Ethan M. Jewett (San Jose, Calif.) and Adam Auton (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to identity-by-descent (IBD) relatedness based on focal and reference segments. An example method includes determining, by a services platform based on personal information of a focal individual, a focal string. The method ...