It says in the link that the company had the discretion to pay between $300 and $5000 per patent, and they paid him $110000 for 30 patents ($3667 average), whic

It says in the link that the company had the discretion to pay between $300 and $5000 per patent, and they paid him $110000 for 30 patents ($3667 average), which means that the patents he was generating were not useless. And the fact that they describe him as a senior engineer and directly describe the IP they’re after as valuable to the company.