Ownership network

Asserters.

Every entity that has appeared as an assignee on a tracked US patent. Built from structured records extracted from each patent’s assignment-history dossier. Click any column header to sort; defaults to most cases filed. Entities markedNPE orshell LLC are flagged this way by the model from the patent dossier — known asserter lists, no products in commerce, registered-agent addresses, single-purpose Delaware/Texas LLCs. These classifications are inferences, not determinations, and may be wrong — treat an entity marked NPE or shell LLC as a possible one, to verify, not a confirmed one.

3 possible patent-rental round-trips — patents that moved A → B → A while B filed at least one infringement suit during its tenure. The round-trip is a structural pattern, not proof of intent: it can also reflect a security interest and release, a correction, or a financing deal. Flagged rows are marked below — treat them as leads to verify.

EntityTypePatents nowPatents everCases filedConnectionsFlags
CARION, PIERRE; SMITH, KEVINindividual0001
WESTERN ALLIANCE BANK SUCCESSOR TO BRIDGE BANKoperating co0001
GOTV NETWORKS, INC; Phunware, Inc.operating co0001
LANGENFELD, GREG; THOMAS, BRAD; HARTKE, LOUIS; HUTCHINSON, MATTindividual0002
Greg Langenfeld, Brad Thomas, Louis Hartke, Matt Hutchinsonindividual0001
HOWUDOWIN INC.—0001
BRODTI, LLCNPE0001
DETITTA, JOHNindividual0001
Sadiki Jordanindividual0001
BUTLER, JOSEPH MARK; REEVES, WILLIAM DAVID, JR.; MCGRAW, GEORGE HARRISindividual0001
Edwin S. Olson; Michael J. Holmes; John H. Pavlishindividual0001
KAWAGUCHI, DEAN M., REESE, Thomas C., SHIKAMI, Russell, DEKATE, Sameer, MEHRING, PETER A.individual0001
MEHRING, PETER A.; REESE, THOMAS C.; KAWAGUCHI, DEAN M.; DEKATE, SAMEER; SHIKAMI, RUSSELLindividual0001
HARTFELDER, CHARLES B.; KESTNER, KYLE THOMAS; LYONS, CHRISTOPHER B., JR.; MCCOY, ZACHARY N.individual0001
CORNELIUS, INC.; PRINCE CASTLE LLCoperating co0001
Schwartzentruber, Randallindividual0001
Subramonian Shankar, Jacob Narey, Will Gysinindividual0001
GIOVANNOLI, JOSEPH Lindividual0001
FREDERICK HERZindividual0001
KUKLENSKI, IAN RICHARD, KU, MARTIN C., ZACK, AARON MICHAEL, MURRAY, STEVEN J., O'KEEFFE, JAMES T.individual0001
Lundeby, Bruce A.; Zhang, Lin; Henry, Raymondindividual0001
HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.; HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANYoperating co0001
KUMMETH, CHARLES R., BLATTNER, GEORGE W., HOGAN, MICHAEL A., OLSON, ALAN R.individual0001
COMPAQ COMPUTER CORPORATIONoperating co0001
BAXTER TRAVENOL LABORATORIES INC.operating co0001