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by vegetish 2870 days ago
It has surely gone through quite a paper trail. "Final rejection" dated 13.07.2012, but that wasn't the end of it:

https://register.epo.org/ipfwretrieve?apn=US.201113244836.A&...

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I wonder if the people causing and writing that nonsense lead a happy life knowing they are just creating nonsense. Who does this kind of stuff? People who hate their job? Or hate themselves?
I think it's important to note this patent is from Theranos. It was likely used to perpetuate their fraud.. by telling investors they have N tech patents to show they were innovative.
Yeah, it's not like they are building important stuff like: oppression tools for China; privacy destroying tracking software; dark pattern Skinner's boxes; advertising delivery platforms; and so on.
A lot of them probably have nice cars and big houses. There are plenty of people who do BS in business and have happy lifes.
As far as I know, a nice car and a big house does very little to increase your happiness. Once you meet nominal needs of living, all the 'extra' stuff does very little to make you 'more' happy. It also usually comes in balance with the work or other parts of your existence you have to perform which usually comes with a higher price, offsetting the 'extra' stuff you think you have, because you don't just get 'extra' of the 'nice' parts of life, also 'extra' of the bad parts.