Short of being a founder and/or an individual inventor while not being employed who really gets upside from patents? I've seen plenty of executives get big bonu

Short of being a founder and/or an individual inventor while not being employed who really gets upside from patents? I've seen plenty of executives get big bonuses from IP, rarely a non-founder engineer inventor. And if you are founder and/or individual inventor, your risk profile is totally different than a salaried employee. The least of which is the sheer legal cost to push thru a patent on your own dime.