That’s right. I said it. My patent. It is
not pending anymore. It is now approved.

Tessa said I should post to the blog more and I confirmed
that it has become a family blog, not just a kid blog, so this
post is allowed. =)

Anyway, now we just
need to find $1000 to pay the USPTO to make it permanent before
July, and $5000 to file some extensions, but we’ll find the
money some where. We always do. DATDEC should be able to cover
most of it.

I’m still hoping to build a
prototype this summer, but getting DATDEC back into a
profitable state takes priority. We are setting up a server
farm but have to keep paying to host our servers else where
until that is ready. As soon as we have our servers in our own
space, I think I am going to put improvements to that business
on hold for a while and bang out this prototype.