US Patent Issued to Ancestry.com DNA on July 22 for "Determining data inheritance of data segments" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,221, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ancestry.com DNA LLC (Lehi, Utah).

"Determining data inheritance of data segments" was invented by Keith D. Noto (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device may receive a target data instance. The computing device may identify a plurality of matched segments that match to the target data instance for at least a threshold length. The computing device may define, based on overlapping of the matched segments, the target data instance as a plurality of data string ranges, wherein each divided data string is matched to a set of overlapping matched segments. The computing device ...