Patents Assigned to 23andMe, Inc.
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Patent number: 11657902Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Lawrence Hon, Serge Saxonov, Brian Thomas Naughton, Joanna Louise Mountain, Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey
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Patent number: 11625139Abstract: Displaying an indication of ancestral data is disclosed. An indication that a genetic interval corresponds to a reference interval that has a likelihood of having one or more ancestral origins is received. One or more graphic display parameters are determined based at least in part on the indication. An indication of the one or more ancestral origins is visually displayed using the one or more graphic display parameters.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: John Michael Macpherson, Brian Thomas Naughton, Joanna Louise Mountain
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Patent number: 11621089Abstract: A method, software, database, and system in which a query attribute is used as the basis for accessing stored attribute combinations and their frequencies of occurrence for individuals; and tabulating, based on frequencies of occurrence, those attribute combinations that are most likely to co-occur with the query attribute.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Alexander Kenedy, Charles Anthony Eldering
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Patent number: 11600393Abstract: A method, software, database and system for attribute partner identification and social network based attribute analysis are presented in which attribute profiles associated with individuals can be compared and potential partners identified. Connections can be formed within social networks based on analysis of genetic and non-genetic data. Degrees of attribute separation (genetic and non-genetic) can be utilized to analyze relationships and to identify individuals who might benefit from being connected.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Alexander Kenedy, Charles Anthony Eldering
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Patent number: 11581096Abstract: A system and method are presented in which known genetic attributes associated with a condition are used to seed the determination of additional attributes which are associated with the condition. Based on the learning, the additional attributes (genetic, behavioral, or both) provide for an increased correlation between the combined attributes and the condition. For behavioral attributes, a measure of the impact of the behavioral attribute on the risk of the condition can be transmitted to another device or system.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Alexander Kenedy, Charles Anthony Eldering
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Patent number: 11581098Abstract: A method, software, database and system for attribute partner identification and social network based attribute analysis are presented in which attribute profiles associated with individuals can be compared and potential partners identified. Connections can be formed within social networks based on analysis of genetic and non-genetic data. Degrees of attribute separation (genetic and non-genetic) can be utilized to analyze relationships and to identify individuals who might benefit from being connected.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Alexander Kenedy, Charles Anthony Eldering
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Patent number: 11555073Abstract: The present disclosure provides binding proteins, such as antibodies and antigen-binding fragments, which specifically bind to human CD96 receptor protein (hu-CD96) and are capable of decreasing, inhibiting, and/or fully-blocking immune regulatory effects mediated by hu-CD96. The present disclosure also provides methods of using the antibodies (and compositions thereof) to treat diseases and conditions responsive to decreasing, inhibiting and/or blocking immune regulatory function or activity mediated by CD96 binding to CD155, including effects arising from CD96 interactions with CD226 and/or TIGIT.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Yu Chen, Chingwei Vivian Lee, Germaine Fuh-Kelly, Zuoan Yi, Yao-ming Huang, Valentine Yeung, Krista Maureen McCutcheon, Samuel Nalle, Augusta Eleanor Broughton, Louise Scharf, Navneet Singh, Tina Thai, Shouhua Xiao
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Patent number: 11545269Abstract: A method, software, database and system for attribute partner identification and social network based attribute analysis are presented in which attribute profiles associated with individuals can be compared and potential partners identified. Connections can be formed within social networks based on analysis of genetic and non-genetic data. Degrees of attribute separation (genetic and non-genetic) can be utilized to analyze relationships and to identify individuals who might benefit from being connected.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Alexander Kenedy, Charles Anthony Eldering
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Patent number: 11531445Abstract: Displaying an indication of ancestral data is disclosed. An indication that a genetic interval corresponds to a reference interval that has a likelihood of having one or more ancestral origins is received. One or more graphic display parameters are determined based at least in part on the indication. An indication of the one or more ancestral origins is visually displayed using the one or more graphic display parameters.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: John Michael Macpherson, Brian Thomas Naughton, Joanna Louise Mountain
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Patent number: 11521708Abstract: 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 classification results; and correcting errors in the initial classification results to generate modified classification results.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Chuong Do, Eric Durand, John Michael Macpherson
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Patent number: 11514085Abstract: An embodiment may involve storing, by a computing device and in a database, a set of pangenetic attributes of a set of individuals, wherein the pangenetic attributes of the set are respectively and statistically associated with products; based on the statistical associations between the pangenetic attributes and the products, determining, by the computing device, product recommendations for a second set of individuals; receiving, by the computing device and from the second set of individuals, a plurality of measures of satisfaction with the product recommendations; based on the plurality of measures of satisfaction, learning, by the computing device, an association between a subset of the pangenetic attributes and a particular product; and storing, by the computing device and in the database, the learned association, wherein the learned association provides a basis for subsequent recommendations of the particular product when a subsequent individual exhibits the subset of the pangenetic attributes.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Alexander Kenedy, Charles Anthony Eldering
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Patent number: 11515047Abstract: A method, software, database and system for attribute partner identification and social network based attribute analysis are presented in which attribute profiles associated with individuals can be compared and potential partners identified. Connections can be formed within social networks based on analysis of genetic and non-genetic data. Degrees of attribute separation (genetic and non-genetic) can be utilized to analyze relationships and to identify individuals who might benefit from being connected.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Alexander Kenedy, Charles Anthony Eldering
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Patent number: 11515046Abstract: A method, software, database and system for determining an optimal treatment for an illness in an individual and for determining the impact (e.g., side effects and intended benefits) of the treatment in the individual are presented in which an attribute profile of the individual containing genetic and non-genetic attributes is compared against a database containing combinations genetic and non-genetic attributes that are statistically associated with successful treatment of the illness in other individuals.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Andrew A. Kenedy, Charles A. Eldering
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Patent number: 11514627Abstract: The disclosed embodiments concern methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products for determining and displaying pedigrees based on IBD data. Some implementations use a probabilistic relationship model to obtain various likelihoods of various potential relationships based on pairwise IBD data and pairwise age data. Some implementations build large pedigrees by combining smaller pedigrees. Some implementations display pedigree graphs with various features that are informative and easy to understand.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Ethan M. Jewett, Andrew C. Seaman, Kimberly F. McManus, William A. Freyman, Cordell T. Blakkan, Adam Auton, Joanna L. Mountain, Susan M. Furest, Rachel E. Lopatin, Hang Xu, Hilary M. Vance
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Patent number: 11508461Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Lawrence Hon, Serge Saxonov, Brian Thomas Naughton, Joanna Louise Mountain, Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey
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Patent number: 11495360Abstract: A method, software, database and system for attribute partner identification and social network based attribute analysis are presented in which attribute profiles associated with individuals can be compared and potential partners identified. Connections can be formed within social networks based on analysis of genetic and non-genetic data. Degrees of attribute separation (genetic and non-genetic) can be utilized to analyze relationships and to identify individuals who might benefit from being connected.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Alexander Kenedy, Charles Anthony Eldering
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Patent number: 11482340Abstract: A method, software, database, and system in which a query attribute is used as the basis for accessing stored attribute combinations and their frequencies of occurrence for individuals; and tabulating, based on frequencies of occurrence, those attribute combinations that are most likely to co-occur with the query attribute.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Alexander Kenedy, Charles Anthony Eldering
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Patent number: 11468971Abstract: Inferring a characteristic of an individual is disclosed. An indication that a first user and a second user have at least one shared chromosomal segment is received. Information about the second user is obtained. A characteristic of the first user is inferred based at least in part on the information about the second user.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: John Michael Macpherson, Brian Thomas Naughton, Joanna Louise Mountain
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Patent number: D969156Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Peilun Shan, Jie Wei, Magdalene Misztal, Brad Kittredge, Caitlyn Elizabeth Adams, Afton Kerry Vechery, Vilia Ingriany, Timmy Chau, Claudio Guglieri Lillo, Sampo Aleksi Jalasto, Joel Parsons, Jesse Jouni Sakari Maula
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Patent number: D985610Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.Inventors: Peilun Shan, Jie Wei, Magdalene Misztal, Brad Kittredge, Caitlyn Elizabeth Adams, Afton Kerry Vechery, Vilia Ingriany, Timmy Chau, Claudio Guglieri Lillo, Sampo Aleksi Jalasto, Joel Parsons, Jesse Jouni Sakari Maula