Patent 11032111

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. 2019-10-15 · reel 051012/0046 · Assignment of Assignors Interest

    QIAN, HAOLI; SUN, JUNQINGCREDO TECHNOLOGY GROUP LIMITED

    Correspondent: · BAKER & MCKENZIE

    initial assignment to employer

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

Credo Technology Group Ltd is the original assignee named on the issued patent. Credo Technology Group Ltd. is an operating company that develops and sells high-performance, energy-efficient connectivity solutions, including SerDes (serializer-deserializer) technology, which embodies the claims of the patent. Their primary line of business is providing high-speed connectivity solutions for data centers and enterprise networks. The company is currently operating.

Assignment timeline

The USPTO Assignment Center (https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/) shows the following assignment record for US11032111:

  • 2019-10-15 (executed) / recorded 2019-10-15 — Reel 051012/0046
    • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors Interest
    • Assignor: QIAN, HAOLI; SUN, JUNQING
    • Assignee: Credo Technology Group Ltd.
    • Correspondent: BAKER & MCKENZIE LLP, 2 EMBARCADERO CENTER, 11TH FLOOR, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES, 94111.
    • Context: Original assignment from inventors to the company.

Timeline diagram

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    title Ownership of US 11032111
    2019 : Filed by Credo Technology Group Ltd
         : Assigned from inventors to Credo Technology Group Ltd
    2021 : Issued to Credo Technology Group Ltd

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — Not present. The only recorded assignment is from the inventors to Credo Technology Group Ltd., which is an operating company.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — Not present. Credo Technology Group Ltd. is an operating company and not identified as a known NPE.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — Not present. Only one assignment is recorded, so no recurrence can be observed. The correspondent is BAKER & MCKENZIE LLP.
  4. Cascading transfers — Not present. Only one assignment is recorded.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — Not present. The assignment from inventors to Credo was recorded in 2019. The provided litigation records show the earliest cases (PTAB and District Court) filed in 2025.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — Not present. Credo Technology Group Ltd. is an active, publicly-traded operating company.
  7. Privateering — Unclear. While Credo Technology Group Ltd. is an operating company and has engaged in litigation, there is no direct evidence in the provided text or search results to suggest that the patent was transferred to an NPE for assertion on Credo's behalf.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — Not present. The patent is currently assigned to an operating company, not a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion. The patent is currently assigned to Credo Technology Group Ltd., a publicly-traded operating company that develops and sells high-speed connectivity solutions, including SerDes technology. The only assignment on record is from the inventors to Credo Technology Group Ltd., recorded on 2019-10-15 (Reel 051012/0046), which is a standard initial assignment to an employer. Credo Technology Group Ltd. has asserted this patent in several lawsuits, including PTAB and District Court cases, indicating it is actively enforcing its intellectual property.

Verification link: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/patent/index.html (Search by patent number 11032111).

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