Weird Google Patents & Patent Applications

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 […]

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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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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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