I don't remember the co announcing anything about the patent, where did you get that info from? sounds like more spinning to me as usuall, and expected
" I don't buy theory that the shorters stopped shorting a .0001 stock because they found out about the patent."
Of course not. lol. When a stock gets some buying pressure the L2 moves up- Trading 101. When the patent issue arose, some buyers steps up and so did the bid/ask. It happens every day- that's how the market works.
Now I guess every shareholder of every pink sheet stock will claim that naked shorting has stopped in their stock every time the bid and ask move up. LOL