New Apple patents have Steve Jobs credited as an inventor

May sound ridiculous but still needs to be done to protect their identity from less reputable ripoffs that may otherwise just intentionally and exactly clone the design.

mschuster91|2 years ago

> Savant Systems, a Massachusetts-based home automation company, worked with Apple to create a mechanism for remotely controlling the motion of a vehicle using a wireless mobile device. They filed the patent application in 2014, which was granted in 2016. They submitted an updated patent in 2016, which was granted in 2019. Steve Jobs’s name was among the inventors in both these patents.

How the fuck is this patent worthy? The patent describes nothing more than using a smartphone to remotely control a ship's various control methods backed by a data link that's monitored for link quality.

geon|2 years ago

The US patent system is a joke. Patents are basically granted for anything, and are expected to be resolved in courts.

shrubble|2 years ago

Wasn't this idea used by Pierce Brosnan in one of the James Bond films? He was using a cell phone sized device to drive the Q-customized BMW, I think.

guappa|2 years ago

In the blues brothers 2000 (1998) elwood drove the bluesmobile with a remote. I think that's prior art.

justsomehnguy|2 years ago

https://youtu.be/WXgx7Uzislo?t=33

ChrisMarshallNY|2 years ago

It’s an interesting article, but I feel two ways about it, as it’s quite clearly an ad for the company.

However, I respect that they don’t hide that.

A lot of articles are really “stealth ads,” masquerading as “news,” so it’s refreshing to see these folks just come out and say it.

It is also genuinely interesting and original subject matter, not just reflected text from another site.

scientific_ass|2 years ago

Hello ChrisMarshallNY,

I know the author, thanks for sharing your views. I will share your feedback ahead. I do not think their intention is to advertise Apple because most of their articles are on analysis based on patent data.

johnbatch|2 years ago

Seems like most are design patents. For all the graphs and charts it would be nice to know what percentage are design patents vs utility patents.

scientific_ass|2 years ago

You're right. Most are design patents. Only 10.75% are utility patents.

nullptr_deref|2 years ago

Although this is informative article, I felt a little bad while reading the advertisement being shoved on.

The sad part is the website doesn't work on mobile properly. And each link redirects to their internal website instead of original patent url.

There is a patent ID and it is cool!

scientific_ass|2 years ago

Hello nullptr,

Thanks for sharing feedback about website and content. I will share it ahead with the authors. I think it wasn't their intention to advertise Apple here but if it is feeling like an advertisement, then they sure can improve they way they have portrayed this analysis.

About their internal tool. I would be open to share your feedback about this as well if you share it with me.

Would be open to hear feedback from other readers too. Please reply to my comment and I can share it ahead. Thanks.

jeroenhd|2 years ago

I don't have any problems with this website on my phone (Android, Firefox, not usually a combination that's tested), maybe there's some kind of extension or setting that's breaking your experience?

api|2 years ago

iOuija?

hulitu|2 years ago

> New Apple patents have Steve Jobs credited as an inventor

He's the only innovator left at Apple. /s

unknown|2 years ago

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