Well if it's open source, there's not really anyone that is patenting anything. But a company could take an open source invention and patent it. Generally, a company wouldn't do that and create their own closed sourced version.
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But how is this possible if it is already existing? It's not the companies invention so they shouldn't be able to patent it!
https://www.fenwick.com/FenwickDocuments/Patent_Rights.pdf