Patents by Inventor Anne Wojcicki

Anne Wojcicki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9864835
    Abstract: Displaying a comparison of genotypic information between relatives is disclosed, including receiving an indication that a first individual is a grandparent, receiving an indication that a second individual is a grandchild of the first individual, comparing the genotypic information of the first individual and the second individual and calculating a similarity score, and displaying an indication of the similarity score graphically using colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Linda Avey, Oleksiy Khomenko, Brian Thomas Naughton, Serge Saxonov, Anne Wojcicki, Alexander Wong
  • Publication number: 20170277828
    Abstract: Summarizing an aggregate contribution to a phenotypic characteristic for an individual includes: receiving information pertaining to the phenotypic characteristic of an individual; identifying, using one or more computer processors, a set of one or more markers associated with the phenotypic characteristic; obtaining a set of one or more marker measurements of the individual that corresponds to the set of one or more markers; obtaining a set of one or more statistical factors that measure associations between the set of one or more markers and the phenotypic characteristic; determining an aggregate contribution to the phenotypic characteristic of the individual based at least in part on the retrieved set of one or more statistical factors; and outputting a display characteristic to be displayed that is associated with the aggregate contribution to the phenotypic characteristic for the individual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Linda Avey, Andro Rene Hsu, Oleksiy Khomenko, John Michael Macpherson, Joanna Louise Mountain, Brian Thomas Naughton, Serge Saxonov, Anne Wojcicki, Alexander Wong
  • Publication number: 20170228498
    Abstract: Determining relative relationships of people who share a common ancestor within at least a threshold number of generations includes: receiving recombinable deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence information of a first user and recombinable DNA sequence information of a plurality of users; processing, using one or more computer processors, the recombinable DNA sequence information of the plurality of users in parallel; determining, based at least in part on a result of processing the recombinable DNA information of the plurality of users in parallel, a predicted degree of relationship between the first user and a user among the plurality of users, the predicted degree of relative relationship corresponding to a number of generations within which the first user and the second user share a common ancestor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Lawrence Hon, Serge Saxonov, Brian Thomas Naughton, Joanna Louise Mountain, Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey
  • Publication number: 20160277408
    Abstract: Sharing data is disclosed. In some cases, sharing data includes receiving a request to share data from a first account to a second account, receiving an indication of a plurality of first account profiles associated with the first account to share with the second account, and establishing sharing from the plurality of first account profiles to the second account, wherein sharing comprises the second account having read access to a subset of nonpublic data associated with the plurality of first account profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Brian Lee Hawthorne, Oleksiy Khomenko, Jeffrey Mellen, Marcela Miyazawa, Michael Polcari, Jack Tihon, Alexander Wong, Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey
  • Patent number: 9336177
    Abstract: Sharing data is disclosed. In some cases, sharing data includes receiving a request to share data from a first account to a second account, receiving an indication of a plurality of first account profiles associated with the first account to share with the second account, and establishing sharing from the plurality of first account profiles to the second account, wherein sharing comprises the second account having read access to a subset of nonpublic data associated with the plurality of first account profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Lee Hawthorne, Oleksiy Khomenko, Jeffrey Mellen, Marcela Miyazawa, Michael Polcari, Jack Tihon, Alexander Wong, Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey
  • Publication number: 20130345988
    Abstract: Summarizing an aggregate contribution to a phenotypic characteristic for an individual includes: receiving information pertaining to the phenotypic characteristic of an individual; identifying, using one or more computer processors, a set of one or more markers associated with the phenotypic characteristic; obtaining a set of one or more marker measurements of the individual that corresponds to the set of one or more markers; obtaining a set of one or more statistical factors that measure associations between the set of one or more markers and the phenotypic characteristic; determining an aggregate contribution to the phenotypic characteristic of the individual based at least in part on the retrieved set of one or more statistical factors; and outputting a display characteristic to be displayed that is associated with the aggregate contribution to the phenotypic characteristic for the individual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Linda Avey, Andro Rene Hsu, Oleksiy Khomenko, John Michael Macpherson, Joanna Louise Mountain, Brian Thomas Naughton, Serge Saxonov, Anne Wojcicki, Alexander Wong
  • Patent number: 8589437
    Abstract: A system for separating identifying data from personal data is disclosed. The system includes: a first set of stored data comprising a plurality of identifying data structures containing identifying data; a second set of stored data comprising a plurality of personal data structures containing personal data; a set of mapping data comprising a plurality of mappings, wherein each mapping is between an identifying data structure and a personal data structure; and an application configured to receive mapping data associated with a mapping, determine a mapping associated with the mapping data, and obtain a personal data structure based on the mapping. The set of mapping data is logically separate from the first set of stored data, the second set of stored data, and the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Oleksiy Khomenko, Alexander Wong, Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey
  • Patent number: 8543339
    Abstract: Gamete donor selection includes receiving a specification including a phenotype of interest, receiving a genotype of a recipient and a plurality of genotypes of a respective plurality of donors, determining statistical information pertaining to the phenotype of interest based at least in part on different pairings of the genotype of the recipient and a genotype of a donor in the plurality of donors, and identifying a preferred donor among the plurality of donors, based at least in part on the statistical information determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey, Joanna Louise Mountain, John Michael Macpherson, Joyce Yeh-hong Tung
  • Patent number: 8510057
    Abstract: Summarizing an aggregate contribution to a characteristic for an individual is disclosed, including determining the characteristic to be evaluated, identifying one or more markers associated with the characteristic, retrieving the measurement of the individual for each of the one or more markers from a database of individuals' markers, retrieving a statistical factor that measures the association between the marker associated with the characteristic and the characteristic for each of the one or more markers from the marker database, and determining the aggregate contribution based at least in part on the retrieved statistical factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Linda Avey, Andro Rene Hsu, Oleksiy Khomenko, John Michael Macpherson, Joanna Louise Mountain, Brian Thomas Naughton, Serge Saxonov, Anne Wojcicki, Alexander Wong
  • Patent number: 8463554
    Abstract: Determining relative relationship includes receiving recombinable deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) information of a first user and recombinable DNA information of a second user, determining, based at least in part on the recombinable DNA information of the first user and recombinable DNA information of the second user, a predicted degree of relationship between the first user and the second user, and in the event that the expected degree of relationship between the first user and the second user at least meets the threshold, notifying at least the first user about a relative relationship with the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence Hon, Serge Saxonov, Brian Thomas Naughton, Joanna Louise Mountain, Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey
  • Publication number: 20100223281
    Abstract: Determining relative relationship includes receiving recombinable deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) information of a first user and recombinable DNA information of a second user, determining, based at least in part on the recombinable DNA information of the first user and recombinable DNA information of the second user, a predicted degree of relationship between the first user and the second user, and in the event that the expected degree of relationship between the first user and the second user at least meets the threshold, notifying at least the first user about a relative relationship with the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: 23ANDME, INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence Hon, Serge Saxonov, Brian Thomas Naughton, Joanna Louise Mountain, Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey
  • Publication number: 20100145981
    Abstract: Gamete donor selection includes receiving a specification including a phenotype of interest, receiving a genotype of a recipient and a plurality of genotypes of a respective plurality of donors, determining statistical information pertaining to the phenotype of interest based at least in part on different pairings of the genotype of the recipient and a genotype of a donor in the plurality of donors, and identifying a preferred donor among the plurality of donors, based at least in part on the statistical information determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey, Joanna Louise Mountain, John Michael Macpherson, Joyce Yeh-hong Tung
  • Publication number: 20090119083
    Abstract: Displaying a comparison of genetic data is disclosed, including receiving an indication of a first individual, receiving an indication of a second individual, retrieving the genotypic information for the first individual and the second individual, comparing the genotypic information of the first individual and the second individual, displaying an indication of the comparison of the genotypic information of the first individual and the second individual graphically. A first graphical symbol is used to display an indication of the genome regions for which the first individual and the second individual are identical. A second graphical symbol is used to display an indication of the genome regions for which the first individual and the second individual are half identical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Linda Avey, Oleksiy Khomenko, Brian Thomas Naughton, Serge Saxonov, Anne Wojcicki, Alexander Wong
  • Publication number: 20090118131
    Abstract: Displaying a comparison of genotypic information between relatives is disclosed, including receiving an indication that a first individual is a grandparent, receiving an indication that a second individual is a grandchild of the first individual, comparing the genotypic information of the first individual and the second individual and calculating a similarity score, and displaying an indication of the similarity score graphically using colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Linda Avey, Oleksiy Khomenko, Brian Thomas Naughton, Serge Saxonov, Anne Wojcicki, Alexander Wong
  • Publication number: 20090112871
    Abstract: Sharing data is disclosed. In some cases, sharing data includes receiving a request to share data from a first account to a second account, receiving an indication of a plurality of first account profiles associated with the first account to share with the second account, and establishing sharing from the plurality of first account profiles to the second account, wherein sharing comprises the second account having read access to a subset of nonpublic data associated with the plurality of first account profiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Brian Lee Hawthorne, Oleksiy Khomenko, Jeffrey Mellen, Marcela Miyazawa, Michael Polcari, Jack Tihon, Alexander Wong, Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey