Good morning, as soon as I have a response, I will post it here for the community’s reference (just reference of course).
What you mention about having the designer’s name on the patent, in a sense doesn’t it imply the recognition of the creator-designer’s intellectual property ? Just a thought. I will pass this piece of information to my lawyer. However this may be individual design agency’s & client’s policy.
As far as I remember, for the product’s I designed or overviewed in the agency I was working, only once I was asked to provide to the client full design team member’s and my full name in the event he would file a patent.
Anyways, I will keep you posted.
ps. by the way, I was happy to find out that you run the benbentobox (great content, I have stumbled on it quite some times) and designed the logitech craft keyboard. Wonderful design.