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Central Hypothesis
“A patent is a state-verified admission of what an institution believes is possible, which makes the patent archive the most complete public record of intent.”
Navy and HHS grants put institutional claims on the public record, while private or unassigned patents show how a grant is often mistaken for proof of government deployment or tested efficacy.
At FY2025 year-end, 6,543 secrecy orders were in force, about 17% above FY2015; the same regime can bar privately funded inventors from publishing or patenting, and new orders have outpaced rescissions.
Granted claims over attention, perception, emotional state and neural signal; including brain-computer interfaces and neuromodulation.
Filings claiming deliberate modification of weather, cloud cover, or the upper atmosphere; separating what was patented from what was ever deployed.
The two-decade arc in which human gene sequences were patentable, and the ruling that ended it.
Inventions developed with federal money, patented, then exclusively licensed, and the march-in rights the government has never exercised.
Which US agencies and national labs hold patents, how large the portfolios are, and what they license out.
Recent grants put episodic and temporal memory for large language models alongside automatic control skips for quantum circuits, showing the archive's frontier moving through concrete methods for both AI reasoning and quantum computation.
These records place foundational technologies years to decades ahead of broad civilian or commercial use: rechargeable lithium cells trace to 1973, public-key cryptography to 1977, and GPS to a 1964 military precursor.
The current record shows patent power operating through institutions as well as ownership: SEP remedy policy shapes licensing leverage, examiner conflicts expose integrity risks, and regulators have examined patent assertion entities as a competition problem.
This topic's hunt pipeline cites only these 184 domains — no general web sources.
Government / Regulator
International Organisation
Research / Journal
Primary Lab / Company
Statistical / Data Agency
Non-Profit / Archive
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