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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NCR Corporation | operating co | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | |
| Merck & Co., Inc. | operating co | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
| United States Air Force | — | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Palantir Technologies Inc. | operating co | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | |
| LIT-US CHISUM 21-A, LLC | — | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wildseed, Ltd. | shell LLC | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | |
| NXP, B.V., F/K/A FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC. | operating co | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| United States Department of Energy | operating co | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| BlackBerry Limited (Ontario) | operating co | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| PFIZER INC. | operating co | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION | operating co | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Phunware, Inc. | operating co | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | |
| Idealab | operating co | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Beijing Shunyuan Kaihua Technology Limited | operating co | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| 2343127 ONTARIO INC. | shell LLC | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | |
| ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, AS COLLATERAL AGENT | — | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| OT WSOU TERRIER HOLDINGS, LLC | — | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| W&W SENS DEVICES, INC. | NPE | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| ATMEL CORPORATION | operating co | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | |
| IRIS INTERNATIONAL, INC. | operating co | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 |