Ugh, I pasted the wrong patent there for number 3, but Vapnik does in fact hold a couple of SVM related patents. Concerning the "FOURTY YEARS of prior art", wel

Ugh, I pasted the wrong patent there for number 3, but Vapnik does in fact hold a couple of SVM related patents. Concerning the "FOURTY YEARS of prior art", well SVMs without the kernel trick are about as much prior art (and useful) as perceptrons compared to Deep Neural networks.