The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has declassified and made public more than 2,300 national defense patents, the PLA Daily reported. The National Defense Intellectual Property Rights Bureau of the Central Military Commission’s Equipment Development Department has declassified about 3,000 national defense patents and opened 2,346 of them to the public. This the first time the PLA has declassified and made public military patents since it began to register such patents in 1985. The measure is intended to facilitate the transfer of military technologies to civilian industries. The patents can be viewed at weain.mil.cn in the “Patent and Achievement” section where a total of 101 pages of detailed patent entries are available for public viewing. The Bureau plans to establish regulations on the confidentiality and declassification of national defense patents, pledging to declassify and publish patents on a regular basis, the China Daily reports.