First:
A patent doesn't protect shit. If you are a little person, the biggest waste of time, resources and energy is to file for a patent.
- It is trivial for someone with lawyers to bust any patent.
- It is trivial for anyone with lawyers to sue you into oblivion for claiming against them patent infringement.
- It is trivial for a nobody to be taken to court, completely lose to your patent claim, and then for you to get no money and for them to start another company next door doing the same thing. (and you have to start again from square 1 again)
The thing that busts all patents is prior work.
So, if you have an idea, and you publish it here on steemit, it is almost iron-clad that you had the idea on the date it was published. Thus, no one can file a patent (that will hold up in court) after your publishing date.
All ideas, once released are forever in the public domain. Ideas propagate like that. You can't stop it. Trying to stop it is trying to stop nature. Trying to stop a hurricane by shouting at it.
All ideas are not really our own. Each one of them occur to several people all over the planet. The Wright brothers only beat a Frenchman by two weeks in creating the first powered flight.
I know that doesn't answer your question, but your question has no direct answer.