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> Extending it to "generate a random number" was obvious.

I am prepared to bet that the patent was not granted for the concept of a random number generator based on quantum phenomena. You can't patent ideas, you actually need to do some engineering with at least one inventive step.

Experiments in a lab are not manufacturable, reliable, productionised products. They're just not.



I think lisper's link refutes that - to my untutored eye, that is a bench experiment as a patent application.




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