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US 12,285,085 · App. 18/370,164 · Granted Apr 29, 2025

Jewelry item

Inventors: Elizabeth Proulx (Attleboro, MA); Melanie Indindoli (Rehoboth, MA)
A44C5/025
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Patent No.
US 12,285,085
App. No.
18/370,164
Granted
Apr 29, 2025
Kind
B1
Abstract

A jewelry item that includes a plurality of separate links that are supported by a common substrate and in which the links are representative of the DNA lineage of the wearer of the jewelry item. The DNA lineage is represented by the predetermined percentage of DNA on a country-by-country basis as obtained for the wearer; the predetermined percentage being represented by respective different colors that identify each predetermined percentage of DNA. The separate links are in the colors corresponding to the predetermined percentage for each link.

Claims (10)

1. A method of forming a jewelry item that is comprised of a plurality of separate links, supporting the plurality of separate links by means of a common substrate, representing the plurality of separate links in a form of a DNA lineage of a wearer of the jewelry item; representing the DNA lineage by a plurality of predetermined percentages of DNA, on a country by country basis, as obtained for the wearer; each of the plurality of the predetermined percentages of DNA being represented by a different color link of the plurality of separate links and in respective link groups corresponding to a respective country; a total width of each of the respective link groups corresponding to the predetermined percentage of DNA of the respective country and including on the common substrate of the jewelry item all of the link groups defining the DNA lineage of a wearer of the jewelry item.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein, for a smaller predetermined percentage of DNA, using a single link.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein, for a larger predetermined percentage of DNA, using multiple links.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein, for a smaller predetermined percentage of DNA using a single link, and for a larger predetermined percentage of DNA using multiple links.

5. The method of claim 1 including providing the plurality of separate links that comprise the jewelry item to have a same length.

6. The method of claim 1 including engaging the plurality of separate links from one to a next.

7. The method of claim 1 including providing each of the plurality of separate links as a bead.

8. The method of claim 1 including providing the common substrate as an elongated filament forming a bracelet.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the elongated filament is stretchable.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the common substrate is one of an earring base, a bracelet, a necklace and a ring.

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