US Patent Issued to Ancestry.com Operations on Sept. 16 for "Determining relationships of historical data records" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,237, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Determining relationships of historical data records" was invented by Anne Gillespie Mitchell (Fremont, Calif.), Kaleb Benjamin White (Herriman, Utah), Matt Landon Rasmussen (Orem, Utah), Rey Robert Furner (Lindon, Utah), Douglas Garry Earl (Orem, Utah), Bryce Damon Ririe (Highland, Utah) and Donald Bernard Curtis (Highland, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing server may receive genealogical records that include historical records of deceased individuals. The computing server may normalize the genealogical records into normalized genealo...