Patents by Inventor Joanna Louise Mountain

Joanna Louise Mountain 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).

  • Gamete donor selection based on genetic calculations
    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
  • Summarizing an aggregate contribution to a characteristic for an individual
    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
  • Finding relatives in a database
    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
  • FINDING RELATIVES IN A DATABASE
    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
  • Gamete donor selection based on genetic calculations
    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