Storey11 : ) Nope its genuine, after all they have to fork out for the patent agent aswell as the filing. To be honest I felt I understood the gist of the whole 134 paragraphs but simply if you can measure torqe why fanny around with this.
It does tend to add to my vague feeling that a lot of businesses beaver away unaware that they have been superceded or are behind the trends. NXT and the mobile phone I see as a future textbook example. *
In defence though we can also say the market is also imperfect and allows goods etc still to sell even when technologically challenged and inferior. Its wonderful what advertising can do : ). Smartire might also be an interesting example of a company peddling the wrong technology, but it was right for brief few years, anyway time will tell.
*yes it could happen to us and yes I am keeping my eyes pealed : )