[hoosiermama]

You need to do further reading/ research
Four off them held 4/5 of the company’s patents the fifth part was owned by the company. Upon their death guess who owns 100% of he patents?

Do a little more research. It’ll take less then five minutes of your time to not spread false information.

[McGruff]

Well you don’t have to get snippy about it.

I unfriend you.

[MarMema]

Nah. I seriously doubt that. Got something to show it is true?

They were not even Americans.

[Cyber Liberty]

Four off them held 4/5 of the company’s patents the fifth part was owned by the company. Upon their death guess who owns 100% of he patents?

I can answer that. Freescale. If nobody were missing, who owns them? Freescale. Who owns 5/5 of the patents to which you refer? Freescale. The individuals are named on the patents, but the company "owns" them, and no "survivors" gets rich because 20 people are gone

This is a non-issue. These 20 did not hold a huge number of the Freescale patents, anyway. That kind of R&D is done in the US. Where does this story come from? Well, today is bound to be pretty entertaining for me. I'll be lurking but I won't be able to comment much on this thread.