I'm a research scientist in industry and I'm mostly puzzled by your concern. I see this an excellent way to document what I have been working on in a rigorous w

I'm a research scientist in industry and I'm mostly puzzled by your concern. I see this an excellent way to document what I have been working on in a rigorous way that could establish prior work. I don't disagree that software patents are unnecessarily broad. The patenting system is largely a relic of the industrial era. Not that patents are not useful, but that the current system has been 'gamified.'