AUTHORS NOTE: Since this article was published, the link to the Patent Appeal from a government site has been removed. Coincidence? Perhaps...

Anyway, there is an archive of the link available here if you wish to view it https://web.archive.org/web/20210518040055/http://ped.uspto.gov/api/queries/cms/pdfDocument/15141270/JL3UPCQBRXEAPX4