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The patent process works like this: The researcher takes the assignment with the obligation to assign the patent rights to the company who is the employer or the entity paying for the research. Alternatively an inventor might just shop the patent; possible, but unlikely.

Once the research gets a potentially patentable result the patent attorney helps evaluate it and write it up as a patent application.