My experience was: Most papers are not useful for patents. Corporate funding might require a pre-publication review for patent worthyness, and if it is there, i

My experience was: Most papers are not useful for patents. Corporate funding might require a pre-publication review for patent worthyness, and if it is there, it is applied for before publication. Most researchers I knew had little interest in patents, so non-corporate funded papers got published without patent considerations. When it came up, it was a before-you-publish-think-about-it topic.