Wait just one second... they managed to actually get a completely generic description of ECS into the claims?
EDIT: yes, yes they did. What you see above is in fact clam 1, in it's entirety.
This is worse than usual. Usually "X patents (common thing)" headlines actually mean "X patents (common thing with weird twist)," which is a great deal less severe. This really looks like Unity got an actual patent on the actual ECS design pattern, the one that every game has used for the past 40 years.
They will be able to extort an awful lot of money with this patent before it gets overturned.
EDIT: yes, yes they did. What you see above is in fact clam 1, in it's entirety.
This is worse than usual. Usually "X patents (common thing)" headlines actually mean "X patents (common thing with weird twist)," which is a great deal less severe. This really looks like Unity got an actual patent on the actual ECS design pattern, the one that every game has used for the past 40 years.
They will be able to extort an awful lot of money with this patent before it gets overturned.