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Ever seen the U.S. patent index? You find some really bizarre things there - Intel filed a patent yesterday (4/19/11) simply called "multiplying two numbers." Yes, the thing you learned in grade school...they actually filed a patent for it.
Interesting read though: http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...S=PN/7,930,337
tl;dr: Intel files patent for multiplying two numbers together, and this would apply to enhancing future cryptography models.
They can do that?
Can I patent breathing?
Can I patent patenting?
Money Plz Intel KTHXBai!
Not sure if we can patent physiological functions but I call "bi-pedal movement"
Anyway this isn't as absurd as the Spanish woman who filed a claim to become the owner of the sun. Yes..our sun, a celestial body in our galaxy...
She bought it from me...
Hmm... So maybe I CAN patent oxygen!
You just took a breath -- that'll be $10, please!