Missing plane? Is the patent theory the most logical?

Whether you like Snopes or not

- The names are not on the flight manifest
- Their share of the patent would go to their heirs. At the very least, wills and estates would have to be processed and if there are heirs disposition of rights / property to a 3rd party would be contested.

Most plausible answer to me is that either there was a catastrophic mechanical failure, or the pilot (who was having family problems) lost it.

The patent rights go to remaining patent holder which is Jacob Rothschild as his Blackstone owns Freescale. (Freescale had 1/5 the patent)

http://rense.com/general96/tinymicro.html

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a. aliens got the plane


b. it landed on Gilligan's island


c. it sunk in the Bermuda triangle


d. it never took off


e. it exploded in mid-air



I'm going with .a

None of those other "patent holders" (more on that in a minute)are on the passenger list.

Those 4 names are actually listed as inventors /applicants on the patent - Freescale (their employer) was the sole patent holder on the application. Pretty normal - work you do as an employee generally belongs to your employer. It's a pretty standard clause in employment papers.

Here's the patent in question - it seems to be for a rather mundane manufacturing process, not some cash cow deserving of conspiracy theories:
A system for optimizing the number of dies that can be fabricated on a wafer


Aliens - yep, that's it.

I really appreciate good conspiracy theories. The best ones take a lot of imagination and attention to detail. In a way, it's too bad they aren't true; they could explain so much! Then again, a truly great conspiracy theory would let people think they've proven it's not.