The problem with "patch" package happened almost 3 month ago:
`/var/log/dnf.rpm.log:2021-10-04T09:33:17+0000 SUBDEBUG Installed: patch-2.7.6-11.el8.x86_64
/var/log/dnf.rpm.log:2023-08-04T12:36:39+0200 SUBDEBUG Erase: patch-2.7.6-11.el8.x86_64
/var/log/dnf.rpm.log:2023-10-26T14:37:28+0200 SUBDEBUG Installed: patch-2.7.6-11.el8.x86_64
It looks somebody or something deleted it from your server. Today it was installed again.