[rasz]

>If, however, this news came with a grant of all the patents into the public domain

They dont own any patents, they stole the tech from a startup, got sued, lost (patents) and finally had to settle.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-lawsuit-that-could-pop-alpha...

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/07/29/google-settles-ip...

[supermatt]

They have about 100 listed here: https://loon.com/legal/patents/

[rasz]

Those are ancillary. This is what happened to the important ones https://9to5google.com/2017/07/10/project-loon-patents/