The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average temperatures for the quarter of the year centered on February. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.
The average time it takes to obtain a patent from the patent office at this time is about 32 months or a little under 3 years. [See the current wait time statistics at the USPTO website [ here ] (best viewed with Internet Explorer)].
The software should be ready to distribute by the end of the month, but at. this point we are able to describe it for patent purposes. Currently, in the US, you have 1 year to file your patent application after first public disclosure, sale, offer for sale, etc. This is referred to as the 1 year bar date. However, most foreign countries do not have such grace periods AND the US may change the law to first to file vs first to invent.