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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING INTERNATIONAL (SHANGHAI) CORPORATION | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| SBC Knowledge Ventures, L.P. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Tahoe Research, Ltd. | NPE | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Medtronic, Inc. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Bluebonnet Internet Media Services, LLC | NPE | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| RTX Corporation | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SAS | NPE | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| G.D. Searle & Co. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| HITACHI, LTD., A CORP. OF JAPAN | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| NIPPON ELECTRIC COMPANY, LTD. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| SERVSTOR TECHNOLOGIES, LLC | NPE | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Tripath Imaging, Inc. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Star Mountain Diversified Credit Income Fund III, LP | — | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Laminex Industries, Inc. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| Medex, Inc. | operating co | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Open Invention Network, LLC | defensive | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |