Here is a link to Mr. Mimms own words detailing his fight with AT&T over breach of contract using LEDs as transmitter and optical receiver. It is amazing because the little guy almost never wins.
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Compare to the poor sod who patented the slow kick wiper then spent half a lifetime fighting Ford.
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Here is the US patent.
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They made a movie a lawyer cousin says is at least haflway correct.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_of_Genius_(film)
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I know I build one for my father's car in the summer of 1968, I think the plans were in either Popular Electronics or Radio Electronics. He owned Dodge/Chrysler and required some intensive modification to the wiring because the wipers didn't just stop, they reversed and nestled down hidden out of the way.
I made one for my older sister's Chevy, easy peasy, large assed SCR, unijunction and she was ready to hit the road.
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And another "We stole your idea now bug off and leave us alone."
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The moral is, if you come up with a wonderful idea, good luck not getting ripped off, might as well make it public domain to at least screw the big boys.
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You Linux guys are lucky SCO lost....
"The??company??(SCO), formerly?, asserted in 2003 that it was the owner of Unix, and that other Unix-type operating systems—particularly the??operating system??and other variants of Unix sold by competitor companies—were violating their intellectual property by using Unix code without a license in their works"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO%E2%80%93Linux_disputes
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