The reason is that the Patent and Trademark Office can deny patents to inventors that publicly provided details of their invention.
The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.
Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.
First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
Our lives sometimes depends on computers performing as predicted.
The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.