Theranos Was Fake. The Patents Were Real. #Shorts

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Theranos was a fraud. But the patent office kept granting patents with Elizabeth Holmes's name on them: 150 in the U.S., the most in 2021, three years after the company shut down. The full story is on the channel. Timed to A24's You Can See Everything (in theaters Oct. 16). Not affiliated with A24 or the film. Patent count: USPTO Open Data Portal, retrieved Oct. 2, 2026. Patents shown: US 7,291,497 · US 10,533,994 · US 8,840,838. Patent drawings: USPTO. Music and sound design: original. Strategy education, not legal advice. ipCapital Group. #Theranos #ElizabethHolmes #Patents #TrueCrime #Halloween