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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motorola Mobility LLC | operating co | 1 | 13 | 0 | 5 | |
| Callahan Cellular L.L.C. | NPE | 1 | 13 | 0 | 16 | |
| Edison Innovations, LLC | NPE | 1 | 13 | 0 | 2 | |
| General Electric Company | operating co | 1 | 14 | 0 | 15 | |
| DBD Credit Funding LLC | — | 1 | 14 | 0 | 9 | |
| ACACIA RESEARCH GROUP LLC | NPE | 1 | 15 | 0 | 5 | |
| Lucent Technologies Inc. | operating co | 1 | 17 | 0 | 22 | |
| Citicorp North America, Inc., as Agent | operating co | 1 | 18 | 0 | 3 | |
| Rambus Inc. | NPE | 1 | 19 | 0 | 8 | |
| Nortel Networks Limited | operating co | 1 | 24 | 0 | 25 | |
| OT Patent Escrow, LLC | shell LLC | 1 | 30 | 0 | 10 | |
| Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as Collateral Agent | operating co | 1 | 31 | 0 | 20 | |
| Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. | operating co | 1 | 39 | 0 | 3 | |
| Silicon Valley Bank | operating co | 1 | 50 | 0 | 43 | |
| OrthoGrid Systems, Inc. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| CSG SYSTEMS, INC. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | |
| Globus Medical, Inc. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| IMATX, INC.; CONFORMIS, INC. | — | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Xerox Corporation (Connecticut) | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| INPRO II LICENSING SARL | NPE | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |