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The patent holder appears to be an unidentified pseudonym: https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Hendricus-G-Loos https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Hendricus-G-Loos > “All d

The patent holder appears to be an unidentified pseudonym: https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Hendricus-G-Loos https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Hendricus-G-Loos > “All devices are used for Mind Control projects run by CIA or other intelligence agencies. A group of researchers (under the name Dr H Loos) were actually a group of hired professionals for researching and inventing such devices which could be developed and used for mass mind control, PSYOPS, behaviour modification later by CIA.”

anfractuosity 9y ago
I'm curious why they patented their research, rather than keeping it hush-hush.
- throwaway91111 9y ago
  Possibly because research elsewhere is approaching their work independently.
  - munin 9y ago
    The US patent system accommodates classified patents: https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s120.html https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s120.html
    - marvy 9y ago
      How can that work? You need a security clearance to read them? What if someone else invents the same thing before the patent expires?
      - mschuster91 9y ago
        > What if someone else invents the same thing before the patent expires? Government will offer you a nice sum of "keep quiet money" and an NDA, you're getting hit with NSLs, your patent is outright seized by the state, you're getting threats e.g. of tax or immigration checks... the ways government can intimidate you are endless. For the obvious, legal, way see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act
        marvy 9y ago
        So basically you're saying that any independent invention of the same thing is also classified.
        mschuster91 9y ago
        As soon as you try to patent it, USPTO will look up if there's a similar thing - and if there is and it is "red-flagged", you're screwed...
        marvy 9y ago
        But suppose you DON'T try to patent it. You just invent it and try use it or sell it. What then?

anfractuosity 9y ago

I'm curious why they patented their research, rather than keeping it hush-hush.

throwaway91111 9y ago
Possibly because research elsewhere is approaching their work independently.
- munin 9y ago
  The US patent system accommodates classified patents: https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s120.html https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s120.html
  - marvy 9y ago
    How can that work? You need a security clearance to read them? What if someone else invents the same thing before the patent expires?
    - mschuster91 9y ago
      > What if someone else invents the same thing before the patent expires? Government will offer you a nice sum of "keep quiet money" and an NDA, you're getting hit with NSLs, your patent is outright seized by the state, you're getting threats e.g. of tax or immigration checks... the ways government can intimidate you are endless. For the obvious, legal, way see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act
      - marvy 9y ago
        So basically you're saying that any independent invention of the same thing is also classified.
        mschuster91 9y ago
        As soon as you try to patent it, USPTO will look up if there's a similar thing - and if there is and it is "red-flagged", you're screwed...
        marvy 9y ago
        But suppose you DON'T try to patent it. You just invent it and try use it or sell it. What then?