05-15-2018, 02:42 AM
Here's the patent, it's not owned by those individual, it's assigned to their employer Freescale Semiconductor (which years ago was Motorola), that's common practice for inventions that result from the work they were doing as part of their job. I am listed as an inventor on several patents, I don't get a cent, they are all assigned to my employer at the time, and they don't patent them to sell the patent, they do it to protect their product that uses the invention.
"Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (Austin, TX)"
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,671,381.PN.&OS=PN/8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescale_Semiconductor
"Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (Austin, TX)"
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,671,381.PN.&OS=PN/8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freescale_Semiconductor