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A comment on Patent US6007232 – Calculating the average of two integer numbers.

Re:Patent US6007232 – Calculating the average of two integer... by venomsnake on Monday May 04, 2015 @02:27PM (#9488050)
> The present invention relates to calculating the average of two integer numbers, and more particularly to single instruction cycle calculation of the average of two signed or unsigned integer numbers with a correctly rounded result and without errors due to overflowing of intermediate results.

From what I see this is proper patent. There is disclosure, the claim is specific and seems that there is inventive step. Am I missing anything?

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Re:Patent US6007232 – Calculating the average of two integer... by lostinpoetics on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @12:26PM (#9493364)
Almost certainly invalid today (as to all claims). Even before recent decisions, the method claims in particular were pretty much rejected as a matter of course (see e.g., https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=143311033686351...) (specifically the claim appendix at the bottom)
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Re:Patent US6007232 – Calculating the average of two integer... by derekp7 on Monday May 04, 2015 @03:16PM (#9488381)
Because it is patenting math. Which is a law of nature, which gets discovered. And the patent statute says that laws of nature (such as E=MC^2) can't be patented.
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Re:Patent US6007232 – Calculating the average of two integer... by venomsnake on Monday May 04, 2015 @03:43PM (#9488568)
He is patenting logical gate scheme that can produce average of two int in a single instruction. You can average two ints any way you want and not owe royalties ...
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Re:Patent US6007232 – Calculating the average of two integer... by wfunction on Monday May 04, 2015 @03:48PM (#9488603)
> Am I missing something?

Yes, you're missing the fact that it's trivial and demonstrates virtually no creativity.

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