Patent 10115067
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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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.
Inventors
- Mark B Barron (CONSUMERON LLC)
- Michael Hays (CONSUMERON LLC)
Original assignee
CONSUMERON LLC. Based on the patent description, CONSUMERON LLC appears to be the original operating company, described as a "services provider" for a system that "provides rapid same-day delivery of goods" and calculates "reduction in carbon emissions from utilizing the service" (Description). Its current status is Active according to Google Patents.
Assignment timeline
The USPTO Patent Assignment Search (https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/) for US Patent 10115067 shows no recorded assignments beyond the initial assignment to CONSUMERON, LLC, which occurred before the patent's publication.
Timeline diagram
timeline
title Ownership of US 10115067
2009 : Priority date
2010 : Application filed by CONSUMERON LLC
2018 : Patent granted
NPE / troll-pattern signals
- Shell-entity transfer — not present. No transfers to shell entities are recorded.
- Known asserter in the chain — not present. No known asserters appear in the assignment records.
- Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. Only one recording event is available.
- Cascading transfers — not present. No cascading transfers are recorded.
- Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. While the patent family has litigation, the specific assignment records for US10115067 do not show any transfers immediately preceding litigation.
- Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. No indication of bankruptcy or fire-sale.
- Privateering — not present. No evidence of privateering.
- Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. No defensive aggregators are in the chain.
Verdict
Insufficient data. The USPTO Assignment Center shows no recorded post-issuance assignments for US10115067. While Google Patents indicates ongoing litigation for the patent family, the absence of public assignment records prevents a confident assessment of NPE activity.
USPTO Assignment Center search page: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/
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