Seems a terrible patent: 1)Demonstrably no novelty whatsoever. "My device does what they do just a bit smaller" isn't novelty unless the processes themselves a

Seems a terrible patent: 1)Demonstrably no novelty whatsoever. "My device does what they do just a bit smaller" isn't novelty unless the processes themselves are some kind of breakthrough which these clearly aren't. 2)Not being obvious is one of the conditions for a patent is the US[1]. It seems you could make a strong argument for this being obvious in the sense that a)it is. "We have a thing that stores information by making it small. We want to store more information... I know let's make it smaller." is definitely an obvious chain of reasoning b)to make it more obvious they even helped your argument by naming their thing after the one that's a bit bigger and just changed the name to the next engineering prefix down in scale. 3)Very clearly undermines their whole facade about doing something for the benefit of humanity. [1] https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/essentials https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/essentials