You might be right about that concern, however, a lot of this work is done through public funding. Seems a little bit like double-dipping to get the public to p

You might be right about that concern, however, a lot of this work is done through public funding. Seems a little bit like double-dipping to get the public to pay for you to make IP that you then later sell to the highest bidder, with no obligation to share to the public. Of course, if the professor was say, the NXP chair for crypto core excellence and they endowed her department with the understanding that all IP would belong exclusively to NXP, then sure, that would make more sense. I did not see anything like that, though, in the research groups' bio.