Assignment history

Inventors

• Richard D. Haney: Employer at the time of filing not explicitly stated in the patent text but listed as the inventor and original assignor to X One Inc.

Original assignee

The original assignee named on the issued patent US10299071B2 is X One Inc. [cite: US10299071B2].
X One Inc. is primarily involved in location-based services and mobile applications, with the patent itself describing a system for sharing location among web-enabled cell phones. Based on the patent's description of "Buddy Tracker technology" and references to "Buddy Watch server" and application software, it is implied they developed and shipped products embodying the claims. The current status of X One Inc. is operating, as indicated by its continued involvement in litigation as recent as April 2026 ("X One Inc. v. Domino's Pizza Inc. et al.").

Assignment timeline

The USPTO Assignment Center (https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/) shows the following assignment records for US10299071:

• 2018-11-24 (executed) / recorded 2019-03-22 — Reel 048030/0173
  • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors Interest
  • Assignor: HANEY, RICHARD D.
  • Assignee: X ONE, INC.
  • Correspondent: KENNETH L. KING, KENNETH L. KING, ESQ.
  • Context: Original assignment from inventor to assignee upon filing of the patent application.

The Google Patents legal events section also indicates: "2018-11-24 Assigned to X ONE, INC. reassignment" [cite: US10299071B2]. This aligns with the USPTO Assignment Center record.

There are no other recorded assignments for this patent in the USPTO Assignment Center database as of today's date, 2026-05-30. This means X One Inc. remains the current assignee of record.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 10299071
    2018 : Filed and assigned to X One Inc
    2019 : Patent issued

NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The patent was assigned directly from the inventor to X One Inc., which appears to be an operating company based on the nature of the patent and its involvement in litigation as a plaintiff.
2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. X One Inc. is listed as the assignee and has been a plaintiff in litigation, but does not appear on the provided list of known NPEs (Acacia Research Corp, Marathon Patent Group, etc.) and no transfers to such entities are recorded.
3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. Only one assignment is recorded for this patent, and thus no recurrence of a correspondent can be observed for this specific patent's chain. The correspondent, Kenneth L. King, Esq., appears only once for this patent.
4. Cascading transfers — not present. There is only one recorded assignment from the inventor to the original assignee.
5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. While X One Inc. has engaged in litigation related to this patent family, no assignments are recorded in the 6 months prior to the known litigation events for this specific patent. The initial assignment to X One Inc. occurred upon filing, long before the identified litigation dates.
6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no indication that the assignment to X One Inc. or any subsequent transfer (if it existed) was due to a bankruptcy proceeding.
7. Privateering — not present. The patent has remained with X One Inc., which is the asserting entity. No transfer to a separate NPE acting on behalf of an operating company is indicated.
8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The chain does not terminate at a defensive aggregator like RPX or Unified Patents.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion

The patent was assigned from the inventor to X One Inc. upon filing (executed 2018-11-24, recorded 2019-03-22, Reel 048030/0173). X One Inc. is also identified as the plaintiff in ongoing litigation related to this patent, indicating that it is asserting its own intellectual property in the market. There are no other recorded assignments that would suggest a transfer to a shell entity or known NPE.

For verification, see the USPTO Assignment Center search results for US10299071: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/