Rick often expect a humorous kicker with these posts, this appears legit what a patent application to have, not that would necessarily worry a lot of companies royalty wise if the CSIRO's experience with developing WIFI is anything to go by.
My grandfather told me he had an uncle that was a ship's captain teaching navigation in Sydney if my memory is correct. He and one of his friends in Australia worked out a way to accurately locate ships at sea by tracking radio signals, a big deal at the time and they sent their patent application to England to an English "friend" who ended up doing the Alexander Bell trick and put his name on the patent, it appears you can't trust anybody
cheers Nick