[untog]

Do you need to demonstrate any kind of working model in order to patent something? As far as I'm aware, you don't. I look at this as an aspirational patent - frankly, exactly the kind of thing you'd see from a company with so much money they can spend all day dreaming.

[angersock]

It's worse than that...these folks (or whoever inherits the patent) can now sue anybody that actually can get it working.

This is a great example of patents being bullshit.

[ant6n]

Or by the time this actually is possible, the patents will have expired.

[danieltillett]

Yes the good old days where you actually had to show the patent office a physical working model which cutout alot of these pie-in-the-sky patents.