Sure it was. I held software patents 30 years ago. The first software patent was...

		Animats on July 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A 32-year-old state senator is trying to get paten... Sure it was. I held software patents 30 years ago. The first software patent was for SyncSort (1971), the first large sort algorithm to beat O(N log N).