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01/19/2012: "Patent 7,929,907"

A former colleague emailed me recently to point out that a patent application we had made several years ago at a now-defunct company had finally been granted: "Timing recovery scheme for satellite backhaul link" . This one is slightly less fatuous and much narrower than my last patent (which was so broad and meaningless that I'm ashamed to even link to it here).

This new patent was a mildly clever idea to get around a hardware limitation in a particular type of satellite modem system. I'd be surprised if anybody actually implements it. Circumventing the hardware limitation with hardware is not much more complicated than adding a connector. The method in this patent is a lot more complicated.