Google wants to patent splitting the restaurant bill   This is
piece of sushi from Jiro's restaurant in Tokyo. To me, it looks
like a man lying on his back laughing, after getting a free meal
from his friends. Chris Matyszczyk/CNET     It's not so much
that they've been leaving phone prototypes in them. It's that
they've been going out for group dinners and then one or two
Googlies have guzzled beyond the norm, leaving the splitting of
the bill in an unbalanced state.  "Jason had 7 kir royales.
Marina had 6 margaritas and Azielina must have knocked back 14
glasses of Sauvignon Blanc. So, um, dividing the total by, um, 7
and multiplying it by, oh, whatever, I'm drunk anyway."  Days
later, though, the person who feels they've paid too much of the
whole feels wholly resentful.  This resentment has now been
turned, as all resentments should, into a patent application.
For Google has applied for a patent on restaurant bill
splitting.  I am two Kirs grateful to Geekwire for spotting that
just three days ago, a Goog