(i) What is the claimed priority date on the filed application(s)? (ii) Who are the named inventors? (iii) Are they obliged to assign all rights exclusively over to DECN as part of their terms of engagement? (iv) If so, for what consideration? (v) Has any WIPO filing been submitted? if so when.
Until there are answers to these questions, any discussion of IP(if it even exists) is largely moot.
And until something publishes, no one can make any assessment of it potential value in any case (unless disclosed to them under an NDA!)