anorton wrote:
... But the whole process of patenting something is very
tedious, times consuming, and not much fun.


Indeed. I was once the sole inventor of a widget that the company
wanted to patent. Rather than go through the process myself, I brought
in a colleague to do it. He would be a co-inventor, even though he had
nothing to do with it's design, and translate it into patent-ese. He
was an ambitious jerk who did it gladly, just to get another patent with
his name on it.

Bob