US Patent Issued to Color Health on March 17 for "Variant identification by unique data set detection" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,117, issued on March 17, was assigned to Color Health Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).

"Variant identification by unique data set detection" was invented by Hieronymus H. Van Den Akker (Palo Alto, Calif.), Asha Rostamianfar (Kitchener, Canada) and Zachary Langley (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to detecting variants in a data set. A variant-specific unique data set, which includes a variant-inclusive portion that includes a particular variant and one or more other portions is accessed. The variant-specific unique data set corresponds to a particular region of a reference data set...