Eddie Van Halen has died

Re:Eddie Van Halen has died by guidedlight on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:47PM (#24702681)

“Van” is part of the surname. It means “of” or “from” in Dutch. It’s similar to “De” prefixed to Spanish surnames.

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Re:Eddie Van Halen has died by ThePadawan on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @05:39AM (#24706604)

Yes, but the patent application lists his name as "Halen Edward L Van".

So apparently this was misfiled (under the last name "Halen") or filed correctly, just displayed weirdly on patents.google.com (since it appears correctly on the linked uspto.gov [0]).

[0] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H....

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Re:Eddie Van Halen has died by ghostpepper on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @10:58AM (#24708923)

So is the rendering on the patent application correct or incorrect?

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