Originally Posted by
Roger Marty
The other reason I doubt SawStop is in trouble-- while the patents surely cover aspects like capacitive coupling as a flesh detector for a saw blade and etc., I suspect there is also a fair amount of trade secret and know-how in actually engineering the system. Is an old-school tool company going to pony up for the engineering know-how to productize the system? Bosch clearly has the engineering know-how-- hell, Bosch is the company that designs/manufactures the radars used for Tesla's autopilot driving feature. But Jet? Or Delta? Those are old-school tool companies that likely don't have an once of software or electronics talent. And they may not have the money to invest in it either.