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@polybikeuser
Only just come across this thread, my immediate reaction is, have you never heard of Mike Burrows? If you're applying for patents around this you might want to check he hasn't got them covered already. Mike's been producing a variety of bicycles with mono-forks and canti-levered rear wheels since before he did the initial design work behind the Lotus bike Chris Boardman rode in the 1992 Olympics.
Sorry but most of what you appear to be proposing just isn't original, don't think Mike's ever produced a "frame build in a single plane", but that was because he established long ago that you don't need to have one wheel directly in front of the other to produce a bike that's aero and/or rides like a normal bike. Despite having the front wheel not directly in line with the back, not only did Boardman have no trouble riding/balancing on the Lotus bike, he won Gold and, I think, broke the previous Olympic Record. That smacks of game, set and match.
It does seem counter intuitive that having one wheel offset relative to the other would work, but having ridden a number of bikes set up that way I can assure you once on the bike you rapidly discover it doesn't make the blindest bit of difference. You're barking up the wrong tree!