US Patent Issued to 23andMe Genomics on June 30 for "Determining family connections of individuals in a database" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,214, issued on June 30, was assigned to 23andMe Genomics LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Determining family connections of individuals in a database" was invented by John Michael Macpherson (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining relative connections between individuals includes: obtaining identification information of a first individual and identification information of a second individual; determining, based at least in part on a relative connections graph, a relative connections path connecting the first individual, the second individual, and at least one additional individual; and outputting information pertaining...