Assignment history

Inventors

• Jeremy T. Evans (Employer: Raytheon Company)
• Adam C. Wood (Employer: Raytheon Company)
• Chad E. Boyack (Employer: Raytheon Company)
• Richard Piekarski (Employer: Raytheon Company)

All named inventors assigned their interest in the patent to Raytheon Company prior to the patent's filing date.

Original assignee

The entity named on the issued patent is Raytheon Company. Raytheon Company is a major U.S. defense contractor, and its primary line of business involves aerospace and defense systems, including components like the thermal management systems described in the patent. The company, through various mergers and renamings, is currently operating as RTX Corporation. The heat sink technology described in the patent would be embodied in products such as airframes or bulkheads used in aerospace and defense applications, consistent with Raytheon's product lines.

Assignment timeline

• 2015-10-23 (executed) / recorded 2015-10-28 — Reel 036906/0311
  • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT
  • Assignor: EVANS, JEREMY T.; WOOD, ADAM C.; BOYACK, CHAD E.; PIEKARSKI, RICHARD
  • Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY, MASSACHUSETTS
  • Correspondent: ROBERT M. HUDAK, RAYTHEON COMPANY, PATENT DEPARTMENT, P.O. BOX 902 (E04/N119), EL SEGUNDO, CA 90245-0902.
  • Context: Original assignment from inventors to the corporate entity.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 10123456
    2015 : Inventors assigned to Raytheon Co
    2018 : Patent issued to Raytheon Co

NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The sole assignment is from the inventors to Raytheon Company, a well-known operating company.
2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Raytheon Company is an operating company and not listed as a known patent asserter or Non-Practicing Entity (NPE).
3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. Only one assignment record exists, and the correspondent is identified as an attorney within Raytheon Company's patent department. There is no chain of assignments to evaluate for recurrence.
4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment from the inventors to the initial assignee is recorded.
5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. No litigation involving this patent has been identified, and there are no subsequent transfers to analyze in relation to future litigation.
6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. Raytheon Company (now RTX Corporation) is an active, operating company.
7. Privateering — unclear. There is no public information to suggest that Raytheon Company has engaged in privateering activities with this specific patent.
8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent remains assigned to Raytheon Company and has not been transferred to a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data.
This patent has only one recorded assignment: the initial transfer from the inventors to the original assignee, Raytheon Company, recorded on 2015-10-28. There are no subsequent assignments to analyze for NPE or patent-troll patterns. The patent appears to remain with the original operating company.

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