Patent 10117625

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)

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

  1. 2017-05-30 · recorded 2024-05-30 · reel 067574/0953 · Assignment of Assignors Interest

    KESNER, ADAMMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER

    Correspondent: · BAKER & MCKENZIE

    Inventor assignment to original assignee

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

  • Adam L. Kesner (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at the time of filing)

Original assignee

The entity named on the issued patent is Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. They are a prominent medical institution engaged in cancer treatment, research, and education. While they may not "ship a product" in the traditional commercial sense, they utilize and implement advanced medical imaging methods and systems, including those related to retrospective internal gating, in their clinical and research operations. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is currently operating and is a well-known active medical center.

Assignment timeline

  • 2017-05-30 (executed) / recorded 2024-05-30 — Reel 067574/0953
    • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors Interest
    • Assignor: KESNER, ADAM
    • Assignee: MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    • Correspondent: BAKER & MCKENZIE LLP
    • Context: Inventor assignment to original assignee.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 10117625
    2017 : Filed by Memorial Sloan Kettering
         : Inventor assigned to MSKCC
    2018 : Issued
    2024 : Inventor assignment recorded

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — Not present. The only recorded transfer is from the inventor to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a well-known operating medical institution.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — Not present. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is not on any public NPE list.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — Unclear. There is only one recorded assignment, with BAKER & MCKENZIE LLP as the correspondent (Reel 067574/0953). There is no recurrence within this chain to assess a pattern.
  4. Cascading transfers — Not present. Only one assignment is recorded.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — Not present. No litigation for US10117625 was found for 2026 (as per the prior analysis), and the recorded assignment from the inventor to the original assignee was executed prior to the patent's filing date.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — Not present. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is a currently operating institution and has not filed for bankruptcy.
  7. Privateering — Not present. There is no indication of an operating company transferring the patent to an NPE for assertion.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — Not present. The patent is currently assigned to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, not a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. There is only one recorded assignment for US10117625 (Reel 067574/0953), which is the inventor, Adam Kesner, assigning their interest to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. This transfer was executed before the patent's filing date and recorded in 2024. This record does not provide any signals to indicate an NPE pattern, suggesting the patent remains with the original operating assignee.

USPTO Assignment Center search for US10117625: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/

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