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FWIW, it looks like they acquired these patents from a company that actually does make something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Applications_Internatio
by josaka 11y ago
FWIW, it looks like they acquired these patents from a company that actually does make something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Applications_International_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Applications_Internati...
This is speculative, but these patent filings were probably part of a patent filing strategy that helped justify the employment of a what was likely a decent number of engineers by the original owner.
- st3v3r 11y agoI really can't say I care about those jobs. The engineers would have more than likely found other jobs with actual companies that actually do stuff.
- josaka 11y agoAccording to the inventors' employer's website at the time of filing of these patents: "Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a Fortune 500 company, is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the nation. We provide information technology and systems integration solutions worldwide." https://web.archive.org/web/20000511195702/http://www.saic.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20000511195702/http://www.saic.c...