A patent is read as claiming an idea as your own and protecting it. It speaks of pride in originality, and of worry that your work could be taken without credit.
When this appeared in your dream, what were you feeling?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.