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From Wikipedia:

A patent is a form of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of years in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention.

So, yes, an _enabling_ public disclosure is exactly the purpose of a patent.



Public disclosure of the thing being patented, not all aspects of how you plan to produce and distribute it. In fact, those details are open for additional patents.




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