"What's the gestation period on newborn developments?'
4 months....and an application is published...note this is not a patent grant.... a still pending status.
That said, this normally takes between 12 and 18 months...they're not keeping things secret as they did the previous granted patents, where applications were not publish.
click on 1-31-13
IMO, the same will happen to the remaining two applications that are not published yet.
doni