[l3]

has someone tried patenting making money buy being a patent troll? that of course would make one mega patent troll to deal with.

[bskari]

Yes:

IBM: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070244837

Halliburton: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20080270152

[gorbachev]

Way too many instances of prior art. Unfortunately.