10 wild new patents: The future of tech?

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10 wild new patents: The future of tech?

By Gina Smith May 26, 2012, 6:41 AM PDT

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10 wild new patents: The future of tech?

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ntLast week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued its 8,185,968th patent since 1790. Here’s a rundown of some of the grooviest tech patents from the latest crop.

By Gina Smith

Gina Smith is a NYT best-selling author of iWOZ, the biography of Steve Wozniak. She is a vet tech journalist and chief of the geek tech site, aNewDomain.net.

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