4 Oct
2010
4 Oct
'10
3:18 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Bob Ham <rah(a)bash.sh> wrote:
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 13:48 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
pending doesn't mean granted. i'd be suprised (but not *that*
suprised) if the US patent system was willing to grant randy a patent
for a system he described in full detail in his masters thesis and
proceeded to describe in sufficient detail to reproduce it on a
self-released youtube video. but i guess we'll see. maybe he filed the
patent before doing either of those things. a shame if true, but
understandable. yamaha or some similar company could make a lot of
money from this idea.
--p
follow the links from there. there are no patents
here
randy's somewhat commercial attempt to take
his idea(s) into the hands
of musicians is here: http://www.madronalabs.com/
From http://www.madronalabs.com/hardware:
"The Soundplane's continuous capacitive sensing technology is patent
pending."
It seems like there are some patents there :-(