> a patent that describes a procedure with no reference to a machine Essentially all software patents describe the von Neumann architecture and make sure to re

> a patent that describes a procedure with no reference to a machine Essentially all software patents describe the von Neumann architecture and make sure to reference machines for this exact reason. Even when it runs on commodity PCs, the patent will still take a ridiculous amount of space to discuss how the RAM is attached to the CPU etc.