Yes its the first time I see a project with a patent on it. Maybe its a good thing in order to protect the project in the future. If laneaxis is sucessfull the patent will be really useful to let them keep a good position on the competitors.
It could be said that this laneaxis project has been thinking about what it will be like in the future, so with the existence of a patent above it will certainly be very useful later
Being the crypto always on the verge of regulations and impediments, or some kind of news record surprise, any legal problems can lead to many projects to losses, but in Laneaxis their patents can put them on an unattainable level, or the least comfortable