Editing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappearance theories (section)

===Acquisition of Freescale staff===
A variety of social media posts and email [[chain letters]] claim that a patent (#[https://patents.google.com/patent/US8671381 8671381]) was approved days after the disappearance of the MH370, and the right to the patent was split five ways—20% to [[Freescale Semiconductor]] and 20% each to four employees, all of whom were passengers on the plane.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/9988150/12-bizarre-MH370-conspiracy-theories|title=12 bizarre MH370 conspiracy theories|last=Pritchard|first=Tom|work=[[Stuff.co.nz]]|date=29 April 2014}}</ref> The patent deals with fabrication of integrated circuits on a semiconductor wafer. The fact-checking website [[snopes.com]] suggests that there is no evidence that the four inventors listed on the patent application were on the aircraft passenger list, nor that they were entitled to a 20% share of the patent, and it says it is unlikely that their share would revert to Freescale on their death as presented in the email.<ref>{{cite web|title=Patent Pending|url=http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/malaysiapatent.asp|website=Snopes.com|date=13 March 2014 |access-date=23 June 2014}}</ref>