He says It went abandoned because the lawyers kept hitting him up for money.
Terrence is a multimillionaire, and even in a worst-case scenario the total cost of a patent will be no more than a few thousand dollars. He claims this patent generated sales of $7 trillion so far, which would be insane profits for him on very little cost. The only way his "lawyers would keep hitting him up" is if his patent application was getting repeatedly rejected and he kept having to reapply.
He's not mentally Ill. He can articulate ideas and remember things and infact the amount of recall this man has. He seems highly intelligent to me and a free thinker.
You can be highly intelligent, articulate things, have recall, etc. and still be mentally ill. Look at Bobby Fisher, he was the greatest chess player in the world (some say the greatest in history) and yet he was crazy as fukk and believed in all sorts of ridiculous things.
Look at how much shyt Terrence Howard
falsely recalls. Claiming he can remember his time in the womb, claiming he has a PhD in chemical engineering, etc. If he isn't crazy, he's a compulsive liar.
Which for a creative like he and Kanye has a double edged sword to it but is helpful for not thinking inside a closed box. The result of that is a bunch of patents and if you can discredit the abandoned one even if it has his name what can you say about his other patents or ideas? Everyones wants to attack the multiplication topic cause its the easiest to address but no one wants to dive into the deeper questions like Gravity.
Holding a patent doesn't mean an idea is true, it just means the idea is yours and unique. There are MANY patents for shyt that doesn't work, it's not the job of the patent office to actually build your thing and see if it works or not. All the patent office is checking is whether or not your idea has been submitted before by someone else and whether it is sufficiently different from other ideas to be patentable.
You can hold 100 patents and all that means is you're creative, but it doesn't mean you've done anything at all.
EDIT: I MADE THE MISTAKE OF BELIEVING HIM. HE DOESN'T EVEN HOLD THOSE PATENTS, THEY'RE JUST APPLICATIONS THAT WERE NEVER GRANTED.