What patents can management apply for?

Legal analysis: patents are divided into invention patents, utility model patents and design patents, and the method you mentioned is basically not a patent.

Legal basis: inventions and utility models granted patent rights in Article 22 of the Patent Law of the People's Republic of China should be novel, creative and practical. Novelty means that the invention or utility model does not belong to the existing technology, and no unit or individual has filed an application for the same invention or utility model with the patent administration department of the State Council before the filing date, and it is recorded in the patent application documents or patent documents published after the filing date. Creativity means that compared with the prior art, the invention has outstanding substantive characteristics and remarkable progress, and the utility model has substantive characteristics and progress. Practicality means that the invention or utility model can be manufactured or used and can produce positive effects. The existing technology mentioned in this law refers to the technology known to the public at home and abroad before the date of application.