This patent gets rediscovered every half decade or so for the past two-ish decades. I first saw it when George Goble was all the Internet rage[1]. If I recall

This patent gets rediscovered every half decade or so for the past two-ish decades. I first saw it when George Goble was all the Internet rage[1]. If I recall correctly, the patent applicant patented this to demonstrate the perceived silliness of the US patent system. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Goble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Goble