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by ChrisMarshallNY 1590 days ago
I have my name on a patent for an imaging pipeline.

I have no idea why it was granted. I sent it to headquarters as a design pattern description.

That’s pretty much the definition of “prior art.”

I guess they were able to reshape it into a form that the patent office wouldn’t laugh out the door. I never really looked at it. I hate reading patents; even my own.

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Yup, my name is on two patents that IMO are just mundane semi-obvious stuff. But our investors insisted on building a portfolio of patented IP, so there you go.

The system is super broken.