It&#x27;s been a long time since I saw a patent that wasn&#x27;t a description of the most obvious way to do something.  Where I work the company is trying to patent everything (mostly, I would hope for defensive reasons).  I have patents in my name.<p>And they&#x27;re all written as broadly as the USPTO will accept, which is pretty damn broadly.  The <i>language</i> is subtle, but in most cases the implications of the language are <i>not</i> subtle.