> I can't imagine what sort of BS patents they were churning out for an engineer to be able to have 2-3 a week. I interpret that part of the question as the p

> I can't imagine what sort of BS patents they were churning out for an engineer to be able to have 2-3 a week. I interpret that part of the question as the program as a whole seeing 2-3 patents per week, spread over the entire engineering team. The employee in question produced 30 patents over two years -- still an astonishing rate, but evidently worthwhile because 'all of these inventions are used in our products'.