If the concepts are patentable then they have been shown to be capable of being made. You can’t get a patent on an abstract idea.
“If the concepts are patentable then they have been shown to be capable of being made. You can’t get a patent on an abstract idea.”
The single patent that issued was over strong objections over just this problem, which was overcome by an affidavit from an “expert” saying it could be made. Ultimately the USPTO accepted the expert opinion - essentially let the chips fall where they may. Patent can not be enforced if patentee can’t prove infringement - which would require someone else to actually make it. Thus the patent office will often let a patent issue based on an affidavit for whatever rejection it overcomes, and leaves it to the patentee to try to enforce (and opens the door very wide to invalidate the patent by finding a flaw in the affidavit).
You can if you can convince the patent office bureaucrat that it's not 'abstract'. Bureaucrats are not always the sharpest knives in the drawer.
Actually, you can. They are called "paper patents". Such are often challenged in the courts. Most are just pretty wallpaper.
“If the concepts are patentable then they have been shown to be capable of being made. You can’t get a patent on an abstract idea.”
Just because they can be made (constructed) doesn’t mean that they will work.