US Patent Issued to 23andMe on Sept. 30 for "Window-based method for determining inherited segments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,221, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to 23andMe Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Window-based method for determining inherited segments" 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 genetic data is disclosed, including receiving an indication of a first individual, receiving an indication of a second individual, retrieving the genotypic information for the first individual and the second indi...