[tgsovlerkhgsel]

What they can produce it for only matters as a lower limit on the price.

If they can produce it for $1k, and are the only ones who can due to patents, they'll still sell it for whatever the market will bear. Potentially rather choosing to sell 1M units for 100k each instead of 100M units for $1900 each (although I expect too drastic attempts at artificial scarcity would cause the government to expropriate them).

Either way they'd be guaranteed absolutely mad profits if they managed to create this, which is why some people will be willing to throw money at them fully expecting that it's most likely bullshit just because they don't want to miss the opportunity in the unlikely case that it's not.