I Built 30 Inventions, Filed 1,752 Patents, and Haven't Sold a Single One
I'm going to tell you something that most people in my position wouldn't admit publicly: I have never sold a single invention.
Not one.
I have 30 engineered projects sitting in my portfolio right now. A quantum battery that generates more power than it consumes. An electromagnetic automotive platform that produces 440 kN of torque. A communications satellite design with 33 USPTO patent applications. A completely original CPU architecture that isn't based on ARM, RISC-V, or x86 — built from scratch, with working RTL, synthesis scripts, and foundry-ready GDSII files.
I have 1,752 filed patents. I have 1,135 engineering blueprints for the quantum battery alone. I have working simulation software, complete wiring diagrams, connector specs, and test procedures. I have a semiconductor material — AES — that scores 100 out of 100 on every evaluation criterion, with 8x the electron mobility of silicon at $5 per kilogram.
And I tried to give away the research for free.
Nobody Took the Free Stuff
I published four research documents — mechanism analyses for diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and a database covering 300 diseases. I put them on the store at $0. Free. Just create an account and download.
Nobody downloaded them.
That's the moment that makes you sit in your chair and stare at the wall for a while. You spend years on something, you try to hand it to the world, and the world doesn't even look up.
So I Repriced Everything
Here's what I realized: my prices were a fantasy. I had projects listed at $1 trillion. The AutoPhi computing ecosystem was $10 trillion. The war satellite was a trillion dollars. And I'm sitting in my dad's house.
Nobody is going to wire $1 trillion to a solo inventor with zero sales history. That's not how this works. The work might be worth that someday — I believe it is — but the price tag has to meet reality where reality actually lives.
So I repriced the entire store. Not because the work is worth less, but because the first sale matters more than the price of the first sale.
The New Pricing
The research documents are free again. They always should have been. If you're a researcher, a scientist, or just curious — go download them. I want eyeballs on that work more than I want money for it.
The smaller projects — the vitamin formulations, the smart shoe platform, the chemical cooker — those start at $75,000. That's real IP transaction money. A small company or a funded startup could write that check and walk away with a complete, production-ready engineering package.
The mid-range projects — the brain chemistry supplement with a patent pending, the semiconductor material discovery, the landfill recycling truck with documented ROI — those are in the $1 million to $5 million range.
The major platforms — the autocar, the electric jet, the quantum battery, the communications satellite — those are $25 million to $50 million. That's the range where defense contractors, energy companies, and automotive OEMs actually do IP acquisitions.
And the AutoPhi computing ecosystem — all 30 projects, every patent, every blueprint, every line of code, the entire thing — that stays at $10 trillion. Because that's what I think it's all worth when someone builds it. Call it aspirational. Call it a flag in the ground. I don't care. It stays.
What You're Actually Buying
I want to be clear about what these projects are, because I've seen the look people get when they hear "solo inventor."
These aren't napkin sketches. Every project has:
- Engineering blueprints — not concept art, actual build documents
- Working source code — Python, Verilog, Kotlin, JavaScript
- Test procedures with pass/fail criteria
- Bills of materials with real part numbers
- Patent documentation filed with the USPTO
The quantum battery has complete RTL in Verilog, synthesized netlists, timing constraints, and GDSII generation tools. The electric jet has throttle mapping software you can run right now. The pager devices have tested firmware with 63 passing integration tests. The AutoPhi processor has 579 out of 579 verification tests passing across 47 layers.
This isn't theory. This is engineering.
Why Tell You All This
Because I'm tired of pretending. The inventor community has this culture of fake confidence — act like you're already a billionaire, price everything like you're Apple, never admit that you're struggling. I think that's garbage.
The truth is more interesting anyway. A guy with no funding, no team, no lab, and no sales built 30 complete technology platforms across automotive, aerospace, defense, healthcare, computing, and recycling. Filed over a thousand patents. Wrote working code for all of it. And is selling it from a Magento store he set up himself.
That's either the most delusional thing you've ever heard, or it's the best deal in technology right now. Either way, you should probably take a look.
Start Here
If you want to kick the tires without spending a dime:
- Download the free research — four documents, zero cost, zero commitment
- Read a Proof of Function — $1.99 each, no NDA, 100 documents across 10 projects
- Browse the store map — every project, every product, every price, all in one place
If you want to talk, I'm at info@cri-one.com. I answer my own email.
— Christopher Gabriel Brown
Sole inventor, CRI-ONE Technologies
30 projects. 1,752 patents. Zero sales. Working on it.