Patent 11030491

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. 2024-08-02 · reel 006509/0002 · Reassignment

    AON BENFIELD INC.AON RE, INC.

    internal reorg

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

The inventor listed on US patent 11030491 is Takeshi Okazaki. His employer at the time of filing was Aon Benfield Inc.

Original assignee

The original assignee on the issued patent US11030491B2 is Aon Benfield Inc.. Aon Benfield Inc. is a global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor. While they likely do not ship a physical "product" embodying the claims (which relate to analyzing property characteristics through imagery for risk assessment), their primary line of business involves risk management and analytics, where such technology would be applied. Aon Benfield Inc. was later reassigned to AON RE, INC. on 2024-08-02.

Assignment timeline

  • 2024-08-02 (executed) / recorded 2024-08-02 — Reel 006509/0002
    • Conveyance: Reassignment
    • Assignor: Aon Benfield Inc.
    • Assignee: AON RE, INC.
    • Correspondent: NOT RECORDED
    • Context: Internal reorg (Change of Name)

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11030491
    2021 : Issued to Aon Benfield Inc
    2024 : Reassigned to AON RE, INC.

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The reassignment from Aon Benfield Inc. to AON RE, INC. appears to be an internal corporate name change as indicated by the context "CHANGE OF NAME (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS)" in the Google Patents record. Aon Benfield Inc. and AON RE, INC. are both operating entities within the larger Aon corporation.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. None of the assignees (Aon Benfield Inc., AON RE, INC.) are identified as known NPEs on public lists.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. The only recorded assignment does not list a correspondent.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. There is only one recorded assignment, and it is a reassignment due to a name change, not a series of transfers.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. While the Google Patents record indicates litigation for this patent family, the specific filing date of the first infringement suit is not provided in the readily available information, making it unclear if the 2024-08-02 reassignment occurred within 6 months prior to litigation.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no indication of Aon Benfield Inc. or AON RE, INC. filing for bankruptcy.
  7. Privateering — not present. There is no evidence suggesting a transfer to an NPE for assertion on behalf of an operating company.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The chain does not end at a known defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. While the patent is currently involved in litigation, there are no recorded assignments indicating a transfer to a shell entity or a known NPE, and the only recorded reassignment appears to be an internal corporate name change. Therefore, there is insufficient evidence to confidently classify this as an NPE assertion based on the ownership chain alone.
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