[admax88q]

God I hate "patent speak."

One of the most egregious things about patents, is that if you _wanted_ to go implement something that was patented, the patent itself is a useless resource. So much for providing temporary monopoly in exchange for advancing the state of the art. Most patents do not disclose anything useful.

[jbay808]

The claims are useless for teaching, but for a well written patent the other sections document the actually useful information, explaining what's wrong with existing methods, and the preferred ways to implement theirs. The claims are there for lawyers to argue about what does or doesn't count as that invention.