Exactly — but for all practical measures, it does not differ if they release it in the patent, or only when the patent runs out.<p>Currently, they don&#x27;t release it at all.<p>Additional regulation I&#x27;d like to see: Any neural networks trained based on data of users have to be completely public domain. If Google wishes to train recaptcha, they should either pay for people to train it, or give back to the public the value that the public created.