@GazEtc The good news is in the patent law: Apparently, at least until 2020, nobody dared to take this questionable idea to a patent office, or else there would have been prior art and the patent would've been rejected. That's a good track record for humanity between say -100,000 to 2020 BCE.
Begs the question: What did Covid do to Whitney C. and Jacob T. Seifman?