There's another possible explanation, though I forget where I heard it: Patents like these are coded signaling to USA's adversaries of a new-but-no-so-exciting

There's another possible explanation, though I forget where I heard it: Patents like these are coded signaling to USA's adversaries of a new-but-no-so-exciting advancement in weapons tech. For example, Chinese military scientists would be able to read this and see some new tech in these patents, but it's buried under layers of nonsense in order to obscure it from the general public - a sort of coded threat to announce without announcing, the secret-military-science version of test flights with new aerial platforms. It sounded bogus to me the first time I heard it, but then I imagine hearing about what the codebreakers were up to in WWII would sound pretty bogus to a layman then, too.