The unfold of the COVID-19 coronavirus illness in 2020 sparked a flurry of conspiracy theories regarding the place it originated, the way it unfold, and who was chargeable for it. One such concept blamed the illness on Invoice Gates and claimed that the previous Microsoft CEO had began a pandemic in order that he may insert microchips into individuals across the globe underneath the guise of offering vaccinations or for different functions.
This conspiracy concept is propped up by little greater than coincidences and misinterpretations. As an illustration, in April 2020 social media customers began to share a link to a patent supposedly owned by Microsoft that pertained to the micro-chipping of people for monetary achieve.
This patent was particularly insidious, customers claimed, as a result of it carried the numbers “666,” the biblical mark of the satan, and the letters WO, which they claimed stood for the “World Order.”
The above-displayed screenshots pertain to a real patent that Microsoft owns. Nonetheless, this patent doesn’t contain a plan to microchip people, “WO” doesn’t stand for World Order, and one has to disregard the existence of 11 different characters in an effort to arrive on the conclusion that this patent carries the satan’s quantity.
This patent is for a “cryptocurrency system” that “makes use of physique exercise information.” Microsoft Know-how Licensing utilized for this patent in June 2019, and the patent was printed just a few months later in March 2020 underneath the quantity “WO2020060606A1.”
The patent makes no point out of microchips.
The diagrams included on this patent (and proven within the screenshots above) present how the “particular person,” “consumer system,” and “sensor” are all distinct objects. The textual content of the patent additional explains that the “consumer system” within the diagram could embody wearables, akin to a wise watch, or cell telephones, laptops, or tablets:
Person system 130 could embody any system able to processing and storing information/info and speaking over communication community 120. For instance, consumer system 130 could embody private computer systems, servers, cell telephones, tablets, laptops, good units (e.g. good watches or good televisions). An exemplary embodiment of consumer system 130 is illustrated in FIG. 6.
The patent supplies two choices for the sensor. First, the sensor might be included into one of many aforementioned units, akin to a smartphone. The “sensor” can also be its personal standalone element:
Sensor 140 could also be configured to sense the physique exercise of consumer 145. As illustrated in FIG. 1, sensor 140 could also be a separate element from consumer system 130 and be operably and/or communicatively related to consumer system 130. Alternatively, sensor 140 could also be included and built-in in consumer system 130. For instance, consumer system 130 could also be a wearable system having sensor 140 therein. The sensor 140 could transmit info/information to consumer system 130.
At no level on this patent does Microsoft recommend that the sensor could be a microchip implanted into an individual’s pores and skin.
So what in regards to the declare that that is World Order patent 666? As we famous above, this patent was really printed underneath the quantity “WO2020060606A1.” It really incorporates the numbers 666 (or, extra precisely, 060606). Nonetheless “patent WO2020060606A1” will not be the identical as “patent 666.”
Moreover, the “WO” at the beginning of this patent doesn’t stand for “World Order.” It’s shorthand for WIPO, the World Mental Property Group, which issued this patent.
We reached out to Microsoft for extra details about this patent and can replace this text if we hear again.
To sum up: Microsoft does personal a patent that offers with the event of a cryptocurrency system based mostly on monitoring body-activity information. Nonetheless, this patent focuses on wearable know-how, akin to a wise watch, not implanted microchips, and whereas patent quantity “WO2020060606A1” incorporates three “6’s,” this seems to be little greater than a coincidence.
