Patent 10083154

Assignment history

Inventors, original assignee, and the chain of ownership recorded with the USPTO — including the correspondent attorney who recorded each assignment, since shell-LLC chains often share one repeat-player attorney even when the entity names look unrelated. Surfaces NPE / patent-troll patterns: shell-entity transfers, known asserters in the chain, repeat correspondent fingerprints, pre-litigation assignments, and bankruptcy fire-sales.

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Ownership chain (1)

Asserters network →

Structured records extracted from the assignment-history narrative below. Each entity links to its full ownership-network profile.

  1. 2024-12-22 · reel 059904/0839 · Assignment

    ROHRABAUGH, GARY B.SOFTVIEW L.L.C.

    Correspondent: MICHAEL J. REIDINGER · Law Office of Michael J Reidinger

    Reassignment from individual inventor to SoftView L.L.C.

Assignment history

Inventors, original assignee, and the chain of ownership recorded with the USPTO — including the correspondent attorney who recorded each assignment, since shell-LLC chains often share one repeat-player attorney even when the entity names look unrelated. Surfaces NPE / patent-troll patterns: shell-entity transfers, known asserters in the chain, repeat correspondent fingerprints, pre-litigation assignments, and bankruptcy fire-sales.

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Inventors

  • Gary B. Rohrabaugh
  • Scott A. Sherman

The patent document does not specify the employers of the inventors at the time of filing. There is no information within the provided patent text to determine if inventors departed the original assignee within 12 months of filing.

Original assignee

The original assignee is SoftView LLC.
The provided patent text does not contain information regarding whether SoftView LLC shipped a product embodying the claims, their primary line of business, or their current operational status (operating, acquired, dissolved, in bankruptcy).

Assignment timeline

  • 2024-12-22 (executed) / recorded 2024-12-22 — Reel 059904/0839
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: ROHRABAUGH, GARY B
    • Assignee: SOFTVIEW L.L.C.
    • Correspondent: MICHAEL J. REIDINGER, Law Office of Michael J Reidinger, P.C.
    • Context: Reassignment from individual inventor to SoftView L.L.C.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 10083154
    2016 : Filed by SoftView LLC
    2018 : Issued to SoftView LLC
    2024 : Assigned to SOFTVIEW L.L.C.

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — unclear. The initial assignee, SoftView LLC, and the subsequent assignee, SOFTVIEW L.L.C. (as per the 2024-12-22 assignment), share a similar name. Without further information on their business operations or physical address, it's unclear if either functions as a shell entity.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. The assignees, SoftView LLC and SOFTVIEW L.L.C., do not match common public NPE lists based on the provided data.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. Only one assignment record is provided for US10083154, so a repeat correspondent cannot be identified from this chain.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. There is only one recorded assignment in the timeline after the patent was issued.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. While a PTAB case (IPR2026-00281) and a US case filed in the Texas Eastern District Court (2:25-cv-00246) are mentioned in the Google Patents litigation section, the dates of these filings in relation to the 2024-12-22 assignment are not close enough to definitively label this as a "pre-litigation transfer" based solely on the 6-month window. The PTAB case was filed in 2026 and the Texas case in 2025, which is outside a 6-month window from the assignment date.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no information to suggest the original assignee filed for bankruptcy.
  7. Privateering — unclear. There is no information in the provided patent text or assignment records to suggest privateering.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The current assignee is not a known defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. Only one assignment is recorded for this patent, which is a reassignment from an individual inventor to an entity with a very similar name to the original assignee. Without additional assignment records or more detailed information about SoftView LLC's business activities, product shipments, and assertion history, there is insufficient data to confidently classify this patent as being involved in an NPE pattern.

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