Patent 11157606

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. 2020-06-03 · reel 050586/0398 · Assignment

    TUSSY, KEVIN ALANFACETEC, INC.

    Correspondent: BRENT E. ROUSE · ProcOCIO, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch

    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

  • Kevin Alan Tussy (Facetec Inc)

Original assignee

Facetec Inc. is the original assignee. Facetec Inc. develops and markets Liveness Detection and 3D Face Matching technology for biometric authentication, implying they ship products embodying the claims. Their current status is operating.

Assignment timeline

  • 2020-06-03 (executed) / recorded 2020-06-03 — Reel 050586/0398
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: TUSSY, KEVIN ALAN
    • Assignee: FACETEC, INC.
    • Correspondent: BRENT E. ROUSE, PROCopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, 525 B STREET, SUITE 2200, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA UNITED STATES 92101
    • Context: Internal reorg (inventor to company)

There are no other assignment records for US11157606 on the USPTO Assignment Center.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11157606
    2014 : Priority date
    2020 : Application filed by Facetec Inc
         : Assigned from inventor to Facetec Inc
    2021 : Issued

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The only recorded assignment is from the inventor, Kevin Alan Tussy, to Facetec Inc., which is an operating company.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Facetec Inc. is not identified as a known NPE.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. Only one assignment is recorded, so there's no recurrence to observe.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment is recorded.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. While litigation is noted for this patent family on Google Patents, the specific date of the first infringement suit naming this patent is not provided in the readily available information, and only one assignment occurred prior to issuance.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no indication that Facetec Inc. has filed for bankruptcy.
  7. Privateering — not present. There is no indication of an operating company transferring the patent to an NPE to assert on their behalf.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The chain does not end with a known defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. The only recorded assignment is from the inventor to the original operating assignee, Facetec Inc., prior to patent issuance. There are no subsequent assignments recorded to indicate any transfer to an NPE or defensive aggregator.

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

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