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.

2 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
HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.operating co0102
HAMMERHEAD SYSTEMS, INC.operating co0103
BRIXHAM SOLUTIONS LTD.shell LLC0103
GLOBAL INNOVATION AGGREGATORS, LLCNPE0103
HITACHI, LTD., JAPANoperating co0101
MESSMO TECHNOLOGIES PTY. LIMITEDshell LLC0103
SHANGHAI SAGE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.operating co0102
WILINX CORPORATIONoperating co0103
NAVAND TECH CO0102
WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT0103
MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED, MICROSEMI STORAGE SOLUTIONS, INC., MICROSEMI CORPORATION, SILICON STORAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC., ATMEL CORPORATIONoperating co0101
MICROSEMI STORAGE SOLUTIONS, INC., MICROSEMI CORPORATION, SILICON STORAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC., ATMEL CORPORATION, MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATEDoperating co0101
SILICON STORAGE TECHNOLOGY, INC., MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED, MICROSEMI STORAGE SOLUTIONS, INC., ATMEL CORPORATION, MICROSEMI CORPORATIONoperating co0101
METANETICS CORPORATIONoperating co0102
TELXON CORPORATIONoperating co0103
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS AGENT0102
META HOLDING CORPORATIONoperating co0106
FOOTHILL CAPITAL CORPORATION, AS AGENT0101
HAMMERHEAD SYSTEMS, CALIFORNIAoperating co0101
BRIXHAM SOLUTIONS LTD., VIRGIN ISLANDS, BRITISHshell LLC0101
GLOBAL INNOVATION AGGREGATORS LLC., CALIFORNIANPE0101
SEETV GLOBAL, INC.operating co0102
COLE HAAN LLC, NEW HAMPSHIREoperating co0102
ALTER DOMUS (US) LLC, AS COLLATERAL AGENT, ILLINOIS0101
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., MASSACHUSETTS0101