Assignment history

Inventors

• Santanu Dutta
• Partha Chakravartti

Employer at the time of filing: Not determinable from the patent document.

Original assignee

Transparent Wireless Systems LLC.
Product embodying the claims: Not determinable from the patent document. The patent describes methods and systems for access control to secure facilities, particularly parking garages, but does not indicate if Transparent Wireless Systems LLC produced a product embodying these claims.
Primary line of business: Not determinable from the patent document, but likely related to wireless systems and access control based on the patent's subject matter.
Current status: Active, expires 2037-09-17.

Assignment timeline

The USPTO Assignment Center (https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/) shows the following record for US10783506:

• 2015-08-28 (executed) / recorded 2016-08-26 — Reel 039555/0398
  • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST
  • Assignor: DUTTA, SANTANU; CHAKRAVARTTI, PARTHA
  • Assignee: TRANSPARENT WIRELESS SYSTEMS, LLC
  • Correspondent: Not explicitly listed on the Google Patents legal events for this entry, but the main filing was by TRANSPARENT WIRELESS SYSTEMS LLC.
  • Context: Original assignment from inventors to the filing entity.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 10783506
    2015 : Inventors assigned to Transparent Wireless Systems LLC
    2016 : Patent filed
    2020 : Patent issued

NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The initial assignment is from the inventors to the entity that filed the patent application, Transparent Wireless Systems LLC. There is no evidence of a subsequent transfer to a shell entity.
2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Transparent Wireless Systems LLC is not identified as a known asserter on public NPE lists.
3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — unclear. While the initial assignment is recorded, the correspondent for that specific recording is not explicitly listed in the readily available patent information. Without further assignment records, it's impossible to identify recurring correspondents.
4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment from the inventors to the original assignee is recorded.
5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. There are no records of infringement suits directly referencing this patent, nor any transfers immediately preceding such suits.
6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. No indication of the original assignee filing for bankruptcy.
7. Privateering — not present. There is no information to suggest that the patent has been transferred to an NPE to assert on behalf of an operating company.
8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent has not been assigned to any known defensive aggregators.

Verdict

Insufficient data. Only the initial assignment from the inventors to the original assignee, Transparent Wireless Systems LLC, is recorded. There are no subsequent assignments to indicate a transfer to a licensing entity or an NPE. Therefore, there is insufficient data to confidently identify any NPE/troll patterns.