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The article is from 2016, but notably OCB mode is no longer patented since 2021.

My understanding is that one patent is still covering it for a few months : https://patents.google.com/patent/US7949129B2/

Phillip Rogaway explicitly abandoned the OCB patents in 2021:

The linked patent reflects the unpaid upkeep fee and shows a status of expired as a result.