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If a person invents something while a US federal employee (and the invention is closely related to her primary area of work for this employer), but the invention is made on her own time and prior to her being tasked/funded for it (but the optimization of the invention is later funded, NOT with R&D funds but rather operations/purchasing funds), could that person patent the invention herself (and have it be defensible) or would she have to patent it through the government and also have the government own the rights?