Also, have you read the patent? The protection is only offered to the claims not the specification (all the rest of the text). Do the claims actually cover the

Also, have you read the patent? The protection is only offered to the claims not the specification (all the rest of the text). Do the claims actually cover the up you care about or could you do what you want differently (even if covered in the specification) without doing what’s in the claims? The patent may not actually cover what you want to do. Alternatively, can you find other prior art that negates the claims? The patent issue process does not perform and exhaustive search on prior art. It could by that you could invalidate the claims if it ever claim to litigation.