'Senator Harley Kilgore, a leader of the wartime initiative that led to the establishment of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1950, contested this convention; a liberal Democrat from West Virginia, he thought the government should hold the patents on any research it funded. '

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/10/05/unreasonable-terms-owning-the-sun-monopoly-medicine/