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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calton Research L.L.C. | shell LLC | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Collateral Agent | — | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| CABLETRON SYSTEMS, INC. | operating co | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| Opticaute, Inc. | operating co | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| OptiFacio, Inc. | — | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Zofillip Pro Group LLC | shell LLC | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Verifides Technology Corp. | operating co | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Beechtree Verifides Management LLC | shell LLC | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc. | operating co | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Veridian Systems Division | operating co | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Veridian Information Solutions, Inc. | operating co | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| MRJ, Inc. | operating co | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| The MITRE Corporation | operating co | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| Intellectual Ventures Holding 57 LLC | NPE | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Local Intelligence, LLC | NPE | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Innerlite, Inc. | operating co | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| MicroProbe Corporation | operating co | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| GENBAND Inc. | operating co | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Pacific Communication Sciences, Inc. | operating co | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| Eagle View Technologies, Inc.; OmniEarth, Inc.; Pictometry International Corp. | — | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |