Google’s 10 Oddest Patents by Bill Slawski shares with us some of Google’s weirdest patent applications and patents. Here is a short rundown. Bill goes in more detail in his write up.

(1) A medical instrument patent (2) A method of depositing metal alloy barrier layers (3) Super charging CDMA technology (4) Baseband direct sequence spread spectrum transceiver, also related to CDMA technology (5) A method of communicating quality of service of network in real time

There are five more interesting and weird patents and patent applications at Bill’s blog.

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