All the technologies described in this article have many competing patent claims by academics at Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, and a few others. Obviously it's hard t

All the technologies described in this article have many competing patent claims by academics at Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, and a few others. Obviously it's hard to tell right now which patents will go through, but I'm pretty sure they won't be royalty free. The main difference is that the procedure is now so easy that most academics will just infringe.