ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,191, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ancestry.com DNA LLC (Lehi, Utah).
"Haplotype phasing models" was invented by Catherine Ann Ball (Mountain View, Calif.), Keith D. Noto (San Francisco), Kenneth G. Chahine (Park City, Utah), Mathew J. Barber (Chicago) and Yong Wang (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel haplotype cluster Markov models are used to phase genomic samples. After the models are built, they rapidly and accurately phase new samples without requiring that the new samples be used to re-build the models. The models set transition probabilities such that the probability for an appearance of any allele w...