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Even if one of his vaccines had been mass-produced, the primary beneficiaries would have been the producer and the government, not Bruce.
Just for completeness, though, he does have one patent application that was filed with another government researcher (currently with FDA) which is not assigned to the government. All the others were, and all of the others on the subject thread of the unassigned application.
Not that the water needs to be muddy.