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Scary Smartphone Motion Control Patent Granted
An anonymous reader writes "On March 16th, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a very broad patent on motion control in computing devices, one that seems to cover any smartphone that uses a built-in accelerometer. It was filed in July 2006 and preceded by a nearly identical patent granted in 2004 after a 2001 application. So it predates many of today's popular smartphones — the iPhone, the DROID, the Nexus One, etc. What will happen if the company that owns the patent asserts it?"
...wherein one or more motions meet, exceeds or else, none or more thresholds; sensing some, or no, motion of said device or a different one in a direction to another direction.