Laravel not redirecting (but HTML response seen in Network tab)

I have a fairly straightforward requirements: From one of the controller functions, I need to redirect the page to a named route and pass along some data.

What I tried the source controller function was this:

    // . . .
    $patent->save();
    return redirect()->route('patents.update', [$patent]);
}

The named route patents.update is defined in my routes/web.php as:

Route::get('patents/update', 'PatentsController@update')->name('patents.update');

And finally, the destination controller function:

public function update(Patent $patent) {
    return view('patents.update');
}

The problem is that when I run this, the page stays where it is, while the view I'm looking for is received as GET response in the Network tab in Chrome. Why's the redirect not working?

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