{"id":885,"date":"2010-09-10T21:50:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T20:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=885"},"modified":"2010-09-10T21:50:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T20:50:57","slug":"have-i-missed-something-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"Have I missed something here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks to me like IBM have been able to patent simple mathematical division!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&#038;Sect2=HITOFF&#038;d=PALL&#038;p=1&#038;u=\/netahtml\/PTO\/srchnum.htm&#038;r=1&#038;f=G&#038;l=50&#038;s1=7,788,063.PN.&#038;OS=PN\/7,788,063&#038;RS=PN\/7,788,063\"><strong><em>Utilizing gross vehicle weight to determine passenger numbers<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><em>A method, system, and computer program for determining the number of passengers riding on a vehicle in real time is presented. A total weight of passengers on the vehicle is divided by an estimated weight of each of the passengers to estimate how many passengers are on the vehicle in real time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to get my patent application on utilizing fuel tank capacity to calculate vehicle range filed before anyone else does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks to me like IBM have been able to patent simple mathematical division! Utilizing gross vehicle weight to determine passenger numbers A method, system, and computer program for determining the number of passengers riding on a vehicle in real time is presented. A total weight of passengers on the vehicle is divided by an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}