From here - http://intellectualventureslab.com/?p=568 http://intellectualventureslab.com/?p=568 Who funded the work and how much have you invested in these inv

From here - http://intellectualventureslab.com/?p=568 http://intellectualventureslab.com/?p=568 Who funded the work and how much have you invested in these inventions? This area of research is an example of an Intellectual Ventures program called Sponsored Invention. In Sponsored Invention, an outside sponsor picks the particular problems they want addressed and pays us to come up with the inventions. The sponsor gets a license to the inventions, but we can also license them to others. For these Malaria related projects, our sponsor is Bill Gates. So it isn't as though they decided one day to go out and fight malaria. It is a commission. [edit] Also, looking at all the pictures of their "photonic fence", they seem to have neglected the fact that mosquitoes have been found at heights of over 1000 feet, so they might just fly over it.