ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,139, issued on June 30, was assigned to Ancestry.com DNA LLC (Lehi, Utah).
"Determining data links based on reconstructing data identifiers" was invented by Clinton C. Mason (Lehi, Utah) and Yong Wang (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that more accurately determine matches between data identifiers based on data identifier reconstruction. For example, the disclosed systems determine a cognate dataset which can include a data identifier associated with a source individual along with data identifiers of individuals rela...