There is no software that we cannot put into hardware - literally! Indeed, as I have often argued too. And even "virtual" software can readily be implemented i

There is no software that we cannot put into hardware - literally! Indeed, as I have often argued too. And even "virtual" software can readily be implemented in human scale electromechanical devices, as with the relay-based computers where you can watch the memory bits change and even reach in and flip them with your fingers. "If a method can be performed by the human mind alone, or with paper and pencil..." However the issue with this patent is that it was too broadly written. The claims apply to all possible implementations, including pencil and paper methods, not just implementation with a logic machine. That is unpatentable.