Those product sectors are not known for compensation of inventors, and presumably he would like more revenue than the $1 unit cost Chinese assemblers or the $8/

Those product sectors are not known for compensation of inventors, and presumably he would like more revenue than the $1 unit cost Chinese assemblers or the $8/hr walmart shelf stocker. Not a high margin business. I don't think that supply chain has the institutional memory and skills to ship anything other than large quantities of traditional, by the standards of their field, commodities. The primary effect of getting a big company involved would be giving the gray market Chinese a big head start, so people can buy the product for 50% off on dx.com and related sites. These reasons probably are what discourages the megacorps from entering this small field, or rephrased, those are the reasons why he's got something new instead of competing with existing mfgrs.