ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,894, issued on June 10, was assigned to Ancestry.com DNA LLC (Lehi, Utah).
"Systems and methods for determining ethnicity subregions" was invented by Alisa Elnaz Sedghifar (San Francisco), Andre Everson Kim (Upland, Calif.), Ju Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Ross Eugene Curtis (Cedar Hills, Utah), Natalie Anne Swinford (Saratoga Springs, Utah), Jeffrey Adrion (Salt Lake City) and Yong Wang (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device may receive an inheritance dataset of a target named entity. The device may access a plurality of clusters associated with a region, each cluster comprising inheritance data for a plur...