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Several of Jerome Lemelson's patents on machine vision were invalidated by a federal judge in Las Vegas today. Lemelson described himself as a prolific inventor, but the recent ruling is further evidence that he was just a prolific writer of generic patent applications. He did earn more than a billion dollars in royalties for his submarine patents and even got MIT's stamp-of-approval by donating $6.5 million for an annual inventor