We're talking about quantum mechanics and vacuum chambers. If you can spec such a system... congratulations, you're an expert. Kathy down the street doesn't ev

We're talking about quantum mechanics and vacuum chambers. If you can spec such a system... congratulations, you're an expert. Kathy down the street doesn't even know this technology exists. On patents...if you're in a sufficiently unexplored space, simple ideas become eminently patentable. So -- given the context -- yeah, pretty much any thought made that is aware of these systems is likely patentable. Profitable to patent? That's a different question.