Yes that was rather my point. There is no difference in "add one cup of chromium" and "put the following magic values into Tensorflow"
The problem is that, in return for telling the world how to make Invar the maker gets a 20year monopoly and then the whole world benefits and everyone can have Invar for ever-after.
With a patent on an AI model there is no giving back to the world because in 20 years that list of weights to recognise a cat won't be of any use to anyone except computer historians