Re: Patent the bloody obvious!
I loved to see the patent for “taking a picture of a cheque and sending it to your bank and having it deposited”.
https://patents.justia.com/patent/10380683
Just love the original patent was filed in 2010 and the 2016 'continuation' contains this gem:
In one embodiment, the user's bank may receive and process the image of the check to obtain deposit information (e.g., via optical character recognition, etc.), and complete the requested deposit based on the deposit information.
Which seems to include the banks pre-existing deposit machines that include OCR cheque scanning; which have been a feature of the UK high street for years prior to 2010...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
