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Its rebirth as a bug killer came thanks to Nathan Myhrvold, a former Microsoft Corp. executive who now runs Intellectual Ventures LLC., a company that collects patents and funds inventions.

It does a lot more of the first than the second. I wish they'd just leave it alone as the results will probably be a non-practical, gee-wiz laser gizmo that makes no sense to deploy anywhere and a raft of vague patents that freeze innovation in the field preventing the inventions that might actually help.




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