IANAPANEC (I am not a patent attorney, not even close), but all the claims in the patent start with: > a power input, extending to form an extension section, a

IANAPANEC (I am not a patent attorney, not even close), but all the claims in the patent start with: > a power input, extending to form an extension section, a power output, a clock input, a clock output, a serial data input and a serial data output; The WS2812 has four pins: power, ground, data in, data out. Doesn't that mean the patent does not apply?