Patent 10863950

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. 2024-05-30 · reel 067574/0953 · Assignment

    KESNER, ADAMMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER, NEW YORK

    Correspondent: · KATTEN MUCHIN ROSENMAN

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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

  • Adam L. Kesner (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)

Original assignee

The original assignee, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, is a prominent cancer treatment and research institution. Their primary line of business is patient care, research, and education in the field of oncology. Given their mission, it is highly probable that they shipped (i.e., used and developed) products and methods embodying the claims within their medical practice and research, specifically in advanced imaging for cancer diagnosis and treatment planning. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is currently operating.

Assignment timeline

  • 2024-05-30 (executed) / recorded 2024-05-30 — Reel 067574/0953
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: Kesner, Adam
    • Assignee: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
    • Correspondent: KATTEN MUCHIN ROSENMAN LLP, 575 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10022-2585. This correspondent firm may have appeared on other tracked patents.
    • Context: Internal transfer/reassignment of inventor's interest to the original assignee.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 10863950
    2019 : Filed by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    2020 : Issued
    2024 : Inventor assigned to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The patent was assigned from the inventor to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, an operating entity.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is not a known patent asserter.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — unclear. Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP acted as correspondent for the 2024-05-30 assignment. Without further data on other tracked patents, it's unclear if this represents a repeat pattern.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment from the inventor to the original assignee is recorded.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. There is no indication of litigation immediately following the recorded assignment.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is an active institution, and the assignment is an internal transfer from the inventor.
  7. Privateering — not present. The assignment is to the original assignee, an operating entity.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The assignee is Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, not a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. Only one assignment is recorded, which is an internal transfer from the inventor to the original assignee, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. This single event does not provide enough information to identify any NPE or patent-troll patterns.

Verification: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/

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