Patent 10823576

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)

Asserters network →

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

  1. 2021-10-08 · reel 059129/0815 · Security Interest

    BRAIN CORPORATIONHERCULES CAPITAL, INC.

    Correspondent: · Ropes & Gray

    securitization

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

  • Jaldert Rombouts (Brain Corp)
  • Borja Ibarz Gabardos (Brain Corp)
  • Jean-Baptiste Passot (Brain Corp)
  • Andrew Smith (Brain Corp)

Original assignee

Brain Corp. is the original assignee. Brain Corp. develops and provides AI-powered software for autonomous mobile robots, which would ship products embodying the claims. Their current status is operating.

Assignment timeline

  • 2021-10-08 (executed) / recorded 2021-10-08 — Reel 059129/0815
    • Conveyance: Security Interest
    • Assignor: BRAIN CORPORATION
    • Assignee: HERCULES CAPITAL, INC.
    • Correspondent: Ropes & Gray LLP, Ropes & Gray LLP, Prudential Tower, 800 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02199. This firm recurs as correspondent on other tracked patents.
    • Context: Securitization.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 10823576
    2019 : Filed by Brain Corp
    2020 : Issued
    2021 : Security interest to Hercules Capital

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — present. Ropes & Gray LLP appears as correspondent on reel 059129/0815, and is also known to file for other entities tracked on this site.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. There is litigation associated with this patent family, however, the specific date of the first infringement suit is not available from the primary sources.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present
  7. Privateering — not present
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present

Verdict

Insufficient data. The only recorded assignment is a security interest to Hercules Capital, Inc.. While the correspondent firm, Ropes & Gray LLP, has been noted as recurring on other tracked patents, there is no evidence to suggest this particular transfer is indicative of NPE activity. Without further transfers or concrete evidence of assertion patterns, a definitive conclusion cannot be made.

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