You're trying to make a snarky comment, but this is exactly what patents are supposed to do... Reveal how inventions and large companies work, as opposed to th

You're trying to make a snarky comment, but this is exactly what patents are supposed to do... Reveal how inventions and large companies work, as opposed to the old cloak-and-dagger method of 'secret formulas' and such. Then allowing anybody to see the method and licence it from the company, or be liable for a lawsuit. What we used to have is if somebody somehow stole the secret to an invention it became fair game. Nowadays though companies try to game the system by having intentionally labrinthian patchworks of patents that do their best to not reveal anything about how the invention works while still being able to be used to sue people.