If they were going to weaponinze or use bun, why patent it?
All patent aspects ‘talk up’ their ‘creation’.
I know many geneticists who have patented genes. This is nothing unusual, trust me. Someone or other has patented most receptors and drug targets. Ditto genomes of ‘small’ things, particularly experimental ones. This just means that if you want to use this particular strain in your own drug testing scheme, you owe them a usage fee. This has already been done with various receptors for cancer targets, and other useful drug discovery targets.
What they’re doing with all the sequences in the dark of the night, with or without patent, is another matter entirely.
NIH owns the ‘patent’ on technology used in the HPV vaccine. Same thing.
You may already be familiar with all the aspects listed on that application. If you are you will know there is gold in that there bun, too. Pharmacologically speaking.
But there are also aspects that indicate bun can be weaponized, too. Call me a skeptic but if it ever is I doubt the investigation would ever conclusively identify the origin.
It is the dark of night Americans are dealing with.