Most patents don’t make it to market. And they cost a lot! Not to mention work-arounds which circumvent patents in order to create a competing product.
And successful products are not always the first of their kind.
A fear for every inventor is that his/her/per innovation will be stolen; hence the rush to patents. But not everyone can afford the latter; I certainly cannot, and, so, have not pursued them for the many patentable innovations which the minder includes.
Consequently, I have been resigned to the likelihood that established companies, or funded start-ups, will incorporate aspects of the minder into their products. In this light, the occasional visits to this web site which arrive via VPNs, or coming from East Asia, checking deeper pages, have not surprised me.
