Patent-Broke Playbook: Good, From The Ground Up.
The patent process is survivable without money, without a lawyer, without a lab, and without a running start.
I know because I did it. Three USPTO patents awarded. One filed during a pandemic on a shared kitchen stove. One built from a propellerless wind turbine concept that engineers said couldn't work. All of it without a firm, without funding, and without a clean desk to work from.
This is the real playbook. 100 pages built from actual instability, written for the builders who were never handed an advantage.