There's no extra hardware or cooling in the dock, it uses the integrated cooling system and has air holes to allow it to cool the hardware running at full capacity, because it doesn't have to rely on a battery anymore it allows for better performance.
And no, we won't be getting anything similar to what that patent says, because USB - C doesn't have the transfer speeds for that. If it was a Thunderbolt port, it would be possible but even if they were to do this and it would have competitive hardware docked the difference between docked and undocked would become bigger and handheld mode would be harder to optimize for with such a huge power gap.
Let's say that the supplemental dock cranks the power up, and now we have a 2 TFLOP GPU, sure you could port any games for that without issues but now try optimizing the same game to run on 350 - 400 GFLOPS undocked (or as many people here believe 150 GFLOPS). Not an easy feat, you'd have to make a lot of sacrifices.
All in all the dock actually isn't priced that badly. For 90 dollars you also get the power brick and USB (doesn't say if it's 2 or 3) to HDMI. The USB to HDMI would be 15 dollars, and the power brick would be around 25 (since Nintendo has to make a profit off these). So that makes the dock 50 dollars, and it probably costs around 25-35 dollars to produce (note it has soft material for the Switch so it doesn't get damaged, that slightly jacks the price up), so really it isn't that big of a scam as it appears on first glance. Just like the Joy-Cons, which cost more money than you'd think to produce because of their size and built in tech (not to mention it's not Nintendo's tech, so they have to pay a fee to use it which brings the price up).
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