For those who haven't heard of it, the actual law governing this is the Ivention Secrecy Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act
[0] - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-patent-act-1977/section-22-s...
https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/invention/stats.html
Safe to assume other countries combined add more thousands.
I see room for a much greater than zero chance we live in a science fiction story with carefully chosen toys for the irresponsible masses. (that would be us, haha)
They have like cloaking fields, a garage full of flying cars, a crate of mister fusions, hand held teleportation devices, sentient holograms, a hypno ray to rc people like toy cars and an interstellar phone to talk with our alien overlords.
i always get a fnord doggie bag
from the waiter