IP Library Granted Patent US 10,999,285
Granted Patent B2
US 10,999,285 · App. 16/949,307 · Granted May 4, 2021

Genome sharing

Inventors: Brian Lee Hawthorne (San Francisco, CA); Oleksiy Khomenko (Stanford, CA); Jeffrey Mellen (San Francisco, CA); Marcela Miyazawa (Mountain View, CA); Michael Polcari (San Francisco, CA); Jack Tihon (San Francisco, CA); Alexander Wong (Palo Alto, CA); Anne Wojcicki (Palo Alto, CA); Linda Avey (Lafayette, CA)
Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
H04L63/101G06F15/16G06F16/9535H04L67/306G06F16/958G06F21/6254G16B20/00
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Patent No.
US 10,999,285
App. No.
16/949,307
Granted
May 4, 2021
Kind
B2
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.

Claims (51)

1. A method for sharing genetic data, comprising:

providing a database comprising genotype records associated with a plurality of users of an application;

receiving, from a first user, a request to share non-public information with a second user through the application, wherein:

one or more first user genotype records are stored in the database, are uniquely associated with the first user and comprise information of the first user, and

one or more second user records are stored in the database, are uniquely associated with the second user and comprise genotype information of the second user;

in response to receiving the request from the first user, notifying the second user of the request from the first user;

in response to notifying the second user of the request from the first user, receiving, from the second user, an acceptance of the request to share non-public information through the application; and

in response to receiving, from the second user, the acceptance of the request, establishing sharing of non-public information associated with the first user to the second user and sharing of non-public information associated with the second user to the first user.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises information related to health of that user.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises information about a likelihood of one or more health concerns to affect that user.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises information about a risk of that user developing a health-related condition.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises health information associated with the genome of that user.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data of that user.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises information about one or more traits associated with the genotype information of that user.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises phenotype information of that user.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises genotype information of that user.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises information about a particular gene of that user.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises ancestry information of that user.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the application is a web application.

13. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, receiving from the first user, an indication of a subset of non-public information to be shared.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the same level of information is shared from the first user to the second user as is shared from the second user to the first user.

15. A computing platform for sharing genetic data comprising:

an application configured to interact with a database comprising genotype records associated with a plurality of users of the application and to receive, from a first user, a request to share non-public information with a second user through the application, wherein:

one or more first user genotype records are stored in the database, are uniquely associated with the first user and comprise information of the first user, and

one or more second user records are stored in the database, are uniquely associated with the second user and comprise genotype information of the second user;

in response to receiving the request from the first user, notifying the second user of the request from the first user;

in response to notifying the second user of the request from the first user, receiving, from the second user, an acceptance of the request to share non-public information through the application; and

in response to receiving, from the second user, the acceptance of the request, establishing sharing of non-public information associated with the first user to the second user and sharing of non-public information associated with the second user to the first user.

16. The computing platform of claim 15 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises information related to health of that user.

17. The computing platform of claim 15 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises health information associated with the genome of that user.

18. The computing platform of claim 15 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data of that user.

19. The computing platform of claim 15 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises information about one or more traits associated with the genotype information of that user.

20. The computing platform of claim 15 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises phenotype information of that user.

21. The computing platform of claim 15 , wherein the application is a web application.

22. The computing platform of claim 15 , wherein the application is configured to share the same level of information is shared from the first user to the second user as is shared from the second user to the first user.

23. A method for sharing genetic data, comprising:

providing a database comprising genotype records associated with a plurality of users of an application;

receiving, from a first user, a request to share non-public information with a second user through the application, wherein:

one or more first user genotype records are stored in the database, are uniquely associated with the first user and comprise information of the first user,

one or more second user records are stored in the database, are uniquely associated with the second user and comprise genotype information of the second user, and

the non-public information comprises genotype information;

in response to receiving the request from the first user, notifying the second user of the request from the first user;

in response to notifying the second user of the request from the first user, receiving, from the second user, an acceptance of the request to share non-public information through the application; and

in response to receiving, from the second user, the acceptance of the request, establishing sharing of non-public information associated with the first user to the second user and sharing of non-public information associated with the second user to the first user, wherein the non-public information associated with the first user comprises information about the genotype of the first user and the non-public information associated with the second user comprises information about the genotype of the second user.

24. The method of claim 23 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises information related to health of that user.

25. The method of claim 23 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data of that user.

26. The method of claim 23 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises information about one or more traits associated with the genotype information of that user.

27. The method of claim 23 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises phenotype information of that user.

28. The method of claim 23 , wherein the non-public information associated with the first user and/or the non-public information associated with the second user comprises ancestry information of that user.

29. The method of claim 23 , wherein the application is a web application.

30. The method of claim 23 , further comprising, receiving from the first user, an indication of a subset of non-public information to be shared.

Assignments (4)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE APP. NO. 63806415 TO 63806145 AND APPL NO. 17721779 TO 17731779 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 73168 FRAME 531. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF NAME. Recorded Jan 6, 2026
From: 23ANDME PGS LLC
To: 23ANDME GENOMICS LLC
Reel/Frame 074434/0334 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 22, 2025
From: 23ANDME PGS LLC
To: 23ANDME GENOMICS LLC
Reel/Frame 073168/0531 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 26, 2025
From: 23ANDME, INC.
To: 23ANDME PGS LLC
Reel/Frame 072562/0795 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 12, 2025
From: HAWTHORNE, BRIAN LEE; KHOMENKO, OLEKSIY; MELLEN, JEFFREY; MIYAZAWA, MARCELLA; POLCARI, MICHAEL; TIHON, JACK; WONG, ALEXANDER; WOJCICKI, ANNE; AVEY, LINDA
To: 23ANDME, INC.
Reel/Frame 071400/0216 →
Continuity (7)
Continuation 16723254 · Dec 20, 2019
Continuation 15046257 · Feb 17, 2016
Continuation 12288014 · Oct 14, 2008
Provisional Application 61070321 · Mar 19, 2008
Provisional Application 60999148 · Oct 15, 2007
Provisional Application 60999064 · Oct 15, 2007
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