Parallel Processing Corp. has sued Sony and is asking that all their Playstation 3s be impounded and destroyed over a infringement involving the system's microprocessor. Obviously, such an eventuality is unlikely, but they might well make a few million bucks out of the deal.

Parallel Processing Corp. is asking a federal court to order Sony to destroy its PlayStation 3 videogame consoles, which PPC claims infringes on its patents for microprocessor technology.

PPC filed the lawsuit last week in U.S. District Court in Tyler, Texas. The suit claims that the cell processor, developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM, violates PPC's patent for "synchronized parallel processing with shared memory." The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted the patent in October 1991.

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