Maybe some clever patent attorneys already have the opposite. Some encryption tool:
<Obvious-little-Idea> => <Converter> => <Awesome-sounding-invention> <Obvious-little-Idea> => <Converter> => <Awesome-sounding-invention>One of the jobs of the patent attorney is to claim the widest possible area that's supported by the invention disclosed in the application for a patent. You don't have a calculator, but "calculating means" which could encompass many different facilities - chemical, mechanical, electronic, quantum, ...