from Hacker News

New Apple patents have Steve Jobs credited as an inventor

by scientific_ass on 10/30/23, 5:45 AM with 51 comments

  • by helsinkiandrew on 10/30/23, 9:22 AM

    > The last patent Jobs applied for was the dramatic glass cube for the entrance to the Apple store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York

    A patent for a glass cube!

    https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/28/89/c3/fd8ac1d...

  • by mschuster91 on 10/30/23, 9:01 AM

    > 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.

  • by ChrisMarshallNY on 10/30/23, 8:35 AM

    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.

  • by johnbatch on 10/30/23, 12:02 PM

    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.

  • by nullptr_deref on 10/30/23, 7:31 AM

    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!

  • by api on 10/30/23, 12:21 PM

    iOuija?

  • by hulitu on 10/31/23, 4:51 PM

    > New Apple patents have Steve Jobs credited as an inventor

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