BANGALORE: What is the very first thing done after any invention? The answer is—patent. Owning a patent is not just a shield, but it acts as a weapon that companies use against their competitors. But at times these patents create unnecessary troubles too.

Google, the giant search engine is known to possess patents for some great tech innovations. However, some of the patents owned by Google are simply weird and quirky but did they proved to be a bizarre or beneficial for Google, find it yourself.

Here by enlightening you with the 6 peculiar patents owned by Google.

1. Social Networking Updates by Comic Strips

Every now and then people update their status like “yippee! Enjoying Goa or Hey! I got married”. People may find it cool, but with the passage of time, the trend is getting mundane. Google found this as an opportunity to explore something new out of the process.

Thus in 2010, Google filed a patent for a technology called "Self-Creation of Comic Strips in Social Networks and Other Communications." The patent application allowed a social network user to post a self made comic strip to their social network status in a selective theme. Though Google was got the patent in 2013, it is yet to come up in the markets.

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