Why invoke Thread.currentThread.interrupt() in a catch InterruptException block?

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This is done to keep state.

When you catch the InterruptedException and swallow it, you essentially prevent any higher-level methods/thread groups from noticing the interrupt. Which may cause problems.

By calling Thread.currentThread().interrupt(), you set the interrupt flag of the thread, so higher-level interrupt handlers will notice it and can handle it appropriately.

Java Concurrency in Practice discusses this in more detail in Chapter 7.1.3: Responding to Interruption. Its rule is:

Only code that implements a thread’s interruption policy may swallow an interruption request. General-purpose task and library code should never swallow interruption requests.

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