Bitzer has long said that the PLATO project would have gotten the patent on time-sharing if only the University of Illinois had known how to process patent applications faster, but at the time university patents were so few and far between, they took a long time to be submitted.
Блитцер говорил что проект PLATO получил бы патент на разделение времени, если бы только Университет Иллинойса знал как обрабатывать заявки на патент быстрее.