{"id":472,"date":"2024-01-20T10:58:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T15:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freesoft.org\/blogs\/soapbox\/?p=472"},"modified":"2024-06-30T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T18:54:11","slug":"u-s-patent-11669350","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freesoft.org\/blogs\/soapbox\/u-s-patent-11669350\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Patent 11,669,350"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last year, I was awarded a U.S. patent for the remote desktop video conferencing system that I developed, collaborate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collaborate is, and will remain, open source and free to use.  The purpose of the patent is only to claim my legal rights as the inventor; I have no intention of trying to monopolize the use of this technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collaborate is hosted on a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/BrentBaccala\/collaborate\">github repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.freesoft.org\/blogs\/soapbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/11669350.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 11669350.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-91e9facd-c69e-4a1d-9fae-9a2e89cb4410\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freesoft.org\/blogs\/soapbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/11669350.pdf\">11669350<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freesoft.org\/blogs\/soapbox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/11669350.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-91e9facd-c69e-4a1d-9fae-9a2e89cb4410\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I was awarded a U.S. patent for the remote desktop video conferencing system that I developed, collaborate. 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