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.

Assignment history

Inventors

Michael F. Malone (Myport IP Inc)

Original assignee

Myport IP Inc. It is unclear if Myport IP Inc. shipped a product embodying the claims. Based on publicly available information, Myport IP Inc. appears to be a patent holding or licensing entity, rather than an operating company directly selling products.

Assignment timeline

The USPTO Assignment Center indicates there are no recorded assignments for US10721066. However, Google Patents "Legal Events" section lists several reassignments for this patent.

Given the discrepancy, and the instruction to prioritize the USPTO Assignment Search as the primary source, I will state that the USPTO Assignment Center has no records for this patent.

The USPTO Assignment Center has no records for this patent.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 10721066
    2019 : Filed by Myport IP Inc
    2020 : Issued to Myport IP Inc

NPE / troll-pattern signals

Shell-entity transfer — unclear
Known asserter in the chain — unclear
Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present
Cascading transfers — not present
Pre-litigation transfer — unclear
Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present
Privateering — unclear
Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present

Verdict

Insufficient data. There are no recorded assignments for US10721066 in the USPTO Assignment Center, making it impossible to reconstruct an assignment chain or identify NPE patterns based on the specified primary source.

Search page for verification: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/