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Thomas Koenig wrote:

> John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> schrieb:
>
>> IBM patented the 709's channel: US Patent 3,812,475 filed in 1957 but
>> not granted until 1974. The patent is 488 pages long including 409
>> pages of figures, 130 columns of narrative text, and 91 claims.
>>
>> https://patents.google.com/patent/US3812475A/en
>
> What a monster.
>
> I've written long patents myself, but this one surely takes the
> biscuit.

The amalgamation of the figures and the placement of the figures
via the figure placement "figure" enable one to directly implement
the device in logic.