Happy New Year, Google. Or so said the US Patent office who issued them patent number 8,261,366 on the last day of 2013, according to a post by Richard Gearhart on his blog Patent Puzzle.
The patent, “Self-creation of comic strips in social networks and other communications” is a method patent, which means it teaches a method instead of a patent for an actual product. “Why do we care,” asks Gearhart? “Because this patent is for something fun for consumers,” he says.
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