This story is bullshit . 1 . When you invent something as an employee , the company you are working for owns all the rights . It ' s in your employment contract . Any engineer who has ever held a job will tell you this . That is why Freescale Semiconductor is listed as the assignee on the patent . That means that the rights are assigned to the company . 2 . If there were no contract , Freescale would have no rights to the patent regardless of whether the employees lived or died . Freescale is not listed as an inventor . Without a contract , the patent is owned by the inventors in common , not as joint tenancy with survivorship . So the rights would go the estates of the inventors . This is irrelevant , though , since Freescale is listed as the assignee on the patent . 3 . The inventors listed on the patent 8671381 Peidong Wang , Zhijun Chen , Zhihong Cheng , Li Ying . Not one of those names appears on flight 370 ' s passenger manifestairlinesmasPDFMH 370 Malaysia % 20 Airlines % 20 Flight % 20 MH % 20370 % 20 Passenger % 20 ManifestNationality 10 Apr . pdf . THIS WHOLE STORY IS A HOAX . 4 . The patent is a routine patent . Freescale received 17 patents that month . 5 . The name Rothschild is used as a boogeyman here . There ' s no evidence that Jacob Rothschild owns any part of Freescale .