Patent 11195058

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 006421/1195 · Change of Name

    AON BENFIELD INC.AON RE, INC.

    Correspondent: · MCGARRY BAIR

    change of name only

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

Takeshi Okazaki. Employer at time of filing not determinable from the patent text.

Original assignee

Aon Benfield Inc. Their primary line of business is insurance and reinsurance solutions. The patent text states they are the "Current Assignee" as of the publication date of 2021-12-07 and the filing date of 2020-05-06. They are currently operating. Whether they shipped a product embodying the claims is not determinable from the patent text.

Assignment timeline

  • 2024-08-02 (executed) / recorded 2024-08-02 — Reel 006421/1195
    • Conveyance: Change of Name
    • Assignor: AON BENFIELD INC.
    • Assignee: AON RE, INC.
    • Correspondent: MCGARRY BAIR PC, 32 Market Avenue, Suite 500, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503. This correspondent may recur.
    • Context: Change of name only

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11195058
    2020 : Application filed by Aon Benfield Inc
    2021 : Granted to Aon Benfield Inc
    2024 : Assigned to AON RE, INC.

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The transfer is a change of name from AON BENFIELD INC. to AON RE, INC., both of which appear to be operating entities in the insurance/reinsurance industry.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Aon Benfield Inc. and AON RE, INC. are not identified as known NPEs.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — unclear. MCGARRY BAIR PC is listed as the correspondent for the 2024-08-02 change of name. Without further assignment records for this patent or other patents, it's unclear if this correspondent recurs in an NPE pattern.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment (a change of name) is recorded.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. While the Google Patents page indicates litigation associated with this patent family (IPR2025-01359 and a US case filed in Delaware District Court), the specific dates of the first infringement suit naming this patent are not provided, making it impossible to determine if the recorded assignment (2024-08-02) falls 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. No evidence of an operating company transferring the patent to an NPE for assertion on its behalf.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The chain does not terminate at a known defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. Only one assignment (a change of name) is recorded on the USPTO Assignment Center, which does not provide enough information to identify NPE patterns.

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

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