I did some digging on this a bit a couple months ago when it first hit the chans.
Rothschild owned Freescale via the Carlyle Group as major shareholder. When Freescale merged with NXP, Rothschild still continues to own it in part, because Blackrock is the majority shareholder in NXP.
The KL03 "chip" (really, System-on-a-Chip or SoC) is merely an improvement on an earlier architecture, but most of the SoC itself is ARM and Texas Instruments' intellectual property (IP). Further- the KL03 is old, designed in 2012 and superseded by two generations. It may have been small, but certainly not injectable into the bloodstream- it's not much smaller than a grain of rice. It might make for something implanted subdermally, but you'd still need to figure out a power source 2-3 times that size.
The one patent in question (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8650327B2/en) is pretty innocuous.. grouping I/O pins together as a "virtual port". Regardless of what people were on MH370, or the other names on the patent, the IP is owned by Freescale. Royalties are a different story, with each named individual receiving some of that (usually it's a one-time award or annual bonus check).
As far as the value of the patent goes... well, it's questionable. It's stuff we've been doing in software and firmware for 20 years. Cool they move it to the chip, but the patent's so narrowly written, it's unlikely they could even patent troll someone that made a similar SoC design.
Soooo.... cui bono? I don't see a net difference to Jacob Rothschild either way.
Edit: copypaste spezzed a paragraph.
I did some digging on this a bit a couple months ago when it first hit the chans.
Rothschild owned Freescale via the Carlyle Group as major shareholder. When Freescale merged with NXP, Rothschild still continues to own it in part, because Blackrock is the majority shareholder in NXP.
The KL03 "chip" (really, System-on-a-Chip or SoC) is merely an improvement on an earlier architecture, but most of the SoC itself is ARM and Texas Instruments' intellectual property (IP). Further- the KL03 is old, designed in 2012 and superseded by two generations.
The one patent in question (https://patents.google.com/patent/US8650327B2/en) is pretty innocuous.. grouping I/O pins together as a "virtual port". Regardless of what people were on MH370, or the other names on the patent, the IP is owned by Freescale. Royalties are a different story, with each named individual receiving some of that (usually it's a one-time award or annual bonus check).
As far as the value of the patent goes... well, it's questionable. It's stuff we've been doing in software and firmware for 20 years. Cool they move it to the chip, but the patent's so narrowly written, it's unlikely they could even patent troll someone that made a similar SoC design.
Soooo.... cui bono? I don't see a net difference to Jacob Rothschild either way.