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At first glance it looks fairly similar to the diagram in this one: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7059182B1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US7059182
by re 8y ago
At first glance it looks fairly similar to the diagram in this one: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7059182B1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US7059182B1/en
There was also this Bezos patent that made the news a few years back with actual airbags: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110194230A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110194230A1/en
I'm certainly no patent lawyer and don't have any sense of how different such a device would have to be to be non-infringing and novel enough to patent. In any case, congratulations to him for actually building a working prototype.
- mdorazio 8y agoGood find on that first patent - it's pretty much exactly the same thing unless the sensor and control mechanism are somehow quite a bit different. It wouldn't stop Chinese case manufacturers from making this, but this would make it pretty difficult to get a new patent for what's shown in the video.
- Mc_Big_G 8y agoI had the same idea years ago and this exact patent is why I never got farther than a patent search.
- mdonahoe 8y agoFun rumor: I hear the Bezos patent was actually submitted to “secretly” cover Blue Origin’s reusable lander designs. Drawing it to look like a phone is a means of camouflage. Technically a capsule can qualify as a “mobile device”