Exactly and I also realize that is what they are up to, it is a huge threat. It is obviously these are not real inventions, I suspect there is prior art for all of these as well but it takes time and money to get a bad patent invalidated. I suspect these are "insurance" against the smaller more dynamic businesses come in to the market, this is not at all a threat to OpenPilot but it is for all people who make frames and sell them and for smaller businesses that wish to take OpenPilot and offer complete platforms around it.
I do find it ironic that the patent system was designed to protect inventors against big corporations and these days it seems that corporations use them to stifle innovation by the little guys.
Its is so obviously a farce and that these designs are copied from the community when you have two different companies, in different locations holding a patent for the exact same thing. It does seem like they just look at forums for new ideas from us and then patent the good ones, thus trying to remove ideas from us that we created.
