Patent 10917483

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

2020-12-28 · Assignment
Joel Grossman, Tasos Roumeliotis, Andrew Ruff, Daniel Hodges, Andrew Smith, Steven Ginn Numberai, Inc.
Transfer of invention rights from individual inventors to the corporate entity

Assignment history

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Inventors

The named inventors for US Patent 10917483 are:

Daniel Hodges (Employer at time of filing: Numberai Inc.)
Tasos Roumeliotis (Employer at time of filing: Numberai Inc.)
Joel Grossman (Employer at time of filing: Numberai Inc.)
Andrew Ruff (Employer at time of filing: Numberai Inc.)
Steven Ginn (Employer at time of filing: Numberai Inc.)
Andrew Smith (Employer at time of filing: Numberai Inc.)

All inventors appear to be associated with the original assignee, Numberai Inc., at the time of filing. There are no immediate unusual patterns observed, as the reassignment event on 2020-12-28 confirms the assignment from the inventors to Numberai, Inc., which is consistent with typical employment agreements where inventors assign their rights to their employer.

Original assignee

The original assignee named on the issued patent US10917483 is Numberai Inc.

Based on the patent's abstract and detailed description, Numberai Inc. developed a system for an "Automated communication-based intelligence engine." The patent describes a system that creates and automatically maintains entity models using communication-based information, involving machine learning, a user interface, sentiment analysis, communication monitoring, and automated bots. This suggests Numberai Inc.'s primary line of business was in developing and deploying such intelligence engines and related software products.

As of the current date (2026-06-19), publicly available information indicates that Numberai Inc. is an operating company, often associated with conversational AI and automation for businesses.

Assignment timeline

No assignment records for US10917483 were found on the USPTO Patent Assignment Search portal beyond the initial grant to Numberai Inc. The Google Patents legal events section lists an assignment event:

2020-12-28 (executed) / recorded 2020-12-28 (based on Google Patents data for "Assigned to Numberai, Inc." from inventors)
- Conveyance: Assignment (implied, from inventors to assignee)
- Assignor: Joel Grossman, Tasos Roumeliotis, Andrew Ruff, Daniel Hodges, Andrew Smith, Steven Ginn (the inventors)
- Assignee: Numberai, Inc.
- Correspondent: Not specified in Google Patents event, requires USPTO assignment search confirmation.
- Context: Transfer of invention rights from individual inventors to the corporate entity.

Since the USPTO Assignment Center search did not return any records for this patent (https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/patents/10917483), it can be stated that there are no recorded post-issuance assignments beyond the initial assignment from the inventors to Numberai Inc. at the time of grant. The event noted in Google Patents ("Assigned to Numberai, Inc. 2020-12-28") typically refers to the recordation of the assignment of inventorship rights to the company prior to or at the time of issuance.

Timeline diagram

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    title Ownership of US 10917483
    2018 : Application filed
    2020 : Inventors assigned to Numberai Inc
    2021 : Patent issued to Numberai Inc
    2026 : Currently owned by Numberai Inc

NPE / troll-pattern signals

Shell-entity transfer — Not present. The patent remains with Numberai Inc., which appears to be an operating company developing products related to the patented technology. There is no record of transfer to a known shell entity or a company with "IP / Patents / Licensing" in its name.
Known asserter in the chain — Not present. Numberai Inc. is not identified as a known NPE/asserter by RPX or Unified Patents.
Repeat correspondent across the chain — Not present. There is only one implied assignment (from inventors to Numberai Inc.) and no subsequent recorded assignments to observe a pattern of recurring correspondents.
Cascading transfers — Not present. No multiple consecutive assignments have occurred.
Pre-litigation transfer — Not present. There is no record of litigation involving this patent, and no transfers have occurred to suggest a pre-litigation setup.
Bankruptcy fire-sale — Not present. Numberai Inc. is an active operating company, and there is no indication of bankruptcy proceedings or associated patent sales.
Privateering — Not present. There is no evidence of a transfer to an NPE on behalf of an operating company.
Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — Not present. The patent is currently held by Numberai Inc. and has not been transferred to a defensive aggregator like RPX or AST.

Verdict

Insufficient data.
There are no recorded assignments for US10917483 in the USPTO Assignment Center (https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/patents/10917483) beyond the initial implied assignment from the inventors to Numberai Inc. at the time of filing/grant. Therefore, there is insufficient data to identify any NPE/troll-pattern signals. The patent appears to be held by its original operating assignee, Numberai Inc.

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