ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,970, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ancestry.com DNA LLC.
"Catalog-based data inheritance determination" was invented by Keith D. Noto (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing server may generate a catalog of overrepresented data strings from a database that stores a plurality of data instances. An overrepresented data string is a data string that matches to a number of data instances and the number exceeds a number threshold. The computing server may receive a target data instance that is to be compared to a related data instance. The computing server may determine one or more matched data strings that match betwe...