Computers, processors, memories and transmission equipment are devices or machines. All these machines, as configured systems, have a documented history of addressing concrete technical problems that ...

To me, as an engineer and inventor, the whole discussion about abstract ideas in relation to processors makes little sense. A computer is a machine, yet there is an ongoing trend to “anthropomorphize” ...

An abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, potentially making it more difficult to patent some software in the future. The ...