Patent 10877233

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. 2019-05-22 · recorded 2019-11-27 · reel 051134/0419 · Assignment

    LAM, YATTUNG; DAI, YIFEI; PAI, RAJANCREDO TECHNOLOGY GROUP LIMITED

    Correspondent: BLAKELY, SOKOLOFF, TAYLOR & ZAFMAN · BLAKELY, SOKOLOFF, TAYLOR & ZAFMAN

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

Original assignee

The original assignee is Credo Technology Group Ltd. Credo Technology Group Ltd is an operating company focused on providing high-speed connectivity solutions for the data infrastructure market. Their products include integrated circuits, active electrical cables (AECs), SerDes chiplets, optical PAM4 digital signal processors, and low-power line card PHYs. They are currently an operating company, publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol CRDO.

Assignment timeline

  • 2019-05-22 (executed) / recorded 2019-11-27 — Reel 051134/0419
    • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST
    • Assignor: LAM, YATTUNG; DAI, YIFEI; PAI, RAJAN
    • Assignee: CREDO TECHNOLOGY GROUP LIMITED
    • Correspondent: BLAKELY, SOKOLOFF, TAYLOR & ZAFMAN LLP, 1279 OAKMEAD PARKWAY, SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, 94085-4040.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 10877233
    2019 : Filed by Credo Technology Group Ltd
    2019 : Inventors assigned to Credo Technology Group Limited
    2020 : Issued

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The sole recorded assignment is from the inventors to the original assignee, Credo Technology Group Limited, which is an operating company.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Credo Technology Group Limited is an operating company, not a known NPE.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. There is only one recorded assignment in the chain.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. There is only one recorded assignment.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. Without knowledge of any infringement suits, this cannot be determined.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. Credo Technology Group Ltd is an active, publicly traded company.
  7. Privateering — not present. The patent has not been transferred from the original operating company.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent is currently held by Credo Technology Group Limited.

Verdict

Insufficient data. The only recorded assignment is from the inventors to the original assignee, Credo Technology Group Limited. Credo Technology Group Limited is an operating company that develops and sells high-speed connectivity solutions. There is no evidence in the provided assignment record to suggest NPE activity.

USPTO Assignment Center search: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/

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