That correlation doesn't sound plausible, given the long and unpredictable lead times in the process. I did an IDF for something June 2010 or so, the patent ap

That correlation doesn't sound plausible, given the long and unpredictable lead times in the process. I did an IDF for something June 2010 or so, the patent application was eventually filed in April 2011, and I just got the bonus this week. (And to top it off, I'd left Google in the meanwhile, so getting that bonus at all was a bit of a surprise).