Looks like the “company” that filed for the patent is basically the corporate research arm of UT. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UT–Battelle https://en.m.wiki

Looks like the “company” that filed for the patent is basically the corporate research arm of UT. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UT–Battelle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UT–Battelle This makes the situation even shittier but also makes it more likely that the people who were issued the patent had little choice in the matter as it’s quite common for universities to basically patent every crap that a group of grads and their advising prof. produce on campus.