( September 23, 2026, 1:40 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held that the asserted patent claims in patents describing a system for calculating object level profitability were patent ineligible because they only described using a computer for a basic process; the panel reversed an Illinois federal judge’s grant of summary judgment of eligibility and affirmed the judge’s finding that defendant entities did not infringe the patents’ claims on the alternative ground of invalidity....