>>9043971
Patents may simply be (and likely are) used to protect research results against competitors using the strain for their own benefit, or to market it to pharma for medical research.
You'd need at least 4 pepes to pull that: the middle pepe acts as a pivot for the other two, and if the rear one could hold the weight of the front one accross, then this one wouldn't be able to do the same for the back one.