US Patent Issued to 23andMe Genomics on March 17 for "Scalable pipeline for local ancestry inference" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,048, issued on March 17, was assigned to 23andMe Genomics LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Scalable pipeline for local ancestry inference" was invented by Chuong Do (Mountain View, Calif.), Eric Yves Jean-Marc Durand (Sceaux, France) and John Michael Macpherson (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ancestry deconvolution includes obtaining unphased genotype data of an individual; phasing, using one or more processors, the unphased genotype data to generate phased haplotype data; using a learning machine to classify portions of the phased haplotype data as corresponding to specific ancestries respectively and generate initial cl...