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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LINE CORPORATION | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Becton, Dickinson and Company | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| University Patents, Inc. | NPE | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | university | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Poe Lang Enterprise Co., Ltd. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| EMEMORY TECHNOLOGY INC. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| SAP SE | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| SHIMADZU CORPORATION | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| Azbil Corporation | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| ALLEGRO MICROSYSTEMS, LLC | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |
| Nagano Keiki Co., Ltd. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Alza Corporation | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Harsco Technologies LLC | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Infineon Technologies AG | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| TDK Corporation | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| France Telecom | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |