Yeah, but then I can license it to the company that will do something with it.
You assume someone wants it.
Licensing something <> patentability. The patent just gives you some small protection under the law for a time.
I know they will want it. I know the specific company that will want it. I work in the space with the people that will want it.
If you create it at your place of work, your employer may be entitled to a part of it.
Look at your work agreement...
Some dumbasses sign agreements that anything they create even on off time that is beneficial to their work, the company gets part of...
or they will change the design a little and patent it.
A company might bite, maybe not. They have lots of choices and what you present would be a future thing, not what they are concerned with right now.
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