I wonder what u/Alupis is thinking today? via a HN thread in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951624 >

I wonder what u/Alupis is thinking today? via a HN thread in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951624 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951624 > Seems rather sad state of our Patent system here in the US where a 19 year old with no prior technical background, who was a Chemical Engineering student, a sophomore no less (meaning barely finished or finishing General Ed. requirements and just starting Major courses), can write and file for a highly-technical patent involving radios, sensors, embedded devices, and the like... > It's very doubtful she understood how any of that works, or would work in her product/patent. Underlying story seems it's absurd this was patent-able.