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.
5 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.
| Entity | Type | Patents now | Patents ever | Cases filed | Connections | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optimal Plus Ltd. | operating co | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| THERMACORE, INC. f/k/a FSBO VENTURE ACQUISITIONS, INC.; THERMAL CORP. | operating co | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| NATIONAL PENN BANK | — | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| THERMAL CORP. | operating co | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Consortium Finance, LLC (California) | — | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| IBM Corporation (International Business Machines Corporation) | operating co | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| KONICA CORPORATION and TOSHIBA CORPORATION | operating co | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hamlin Electronics (Suzhou) Ltd., China | operating co | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Aviovision (Belgium) | operating co | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| SNECMA | operating co | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| CF Capital Limited | — | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Freedom Wireless, Inc., a Nevada corporation | NPE | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Cellexis International, Inc. | — | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Cellular Express, Inc. | operating co | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| ESS Technologies International, Inc. | — | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| TechSearch, LLC | NPE | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Zing Network | — | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| SAP AG | operating co | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Kansas State University Research Foundation | university | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| Advanced Medical Optics, Inc. | operating co | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |