The recent interviewees didn't used the term......proprietary.
The interviewees earlier this year did.
In July of 2018, the Company entered into an assignment of rights agreement under which an individual agreed to assign all of the patent rights, including right, title and interest to an original inventive concept for a system for detecting precious metals buried beneath the ocean floor to the Company
I guess Indy's departure, for whatever reason made that agreement null and void, huh?
Was the agreement world the paper it was written on?
It's rhetorical.