Patent 11273944

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. 2019-08-29 · reel 050210/0078 · Assignment

    Pickett, GaryJLS Automation, Pennsylvania

    original assignment from inventor to operating company

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

  • Gary Pickett: Employer at time of filing not explicitly stated in the patent document, but the patent was assigned to JLS Automation LLC on the filing date.

Original assignee

The original assignee named on the issued patent US11273944 is JLS Automation LLC. JLS Automation LLC is known for manufacturing robotic packaging solutions, implying they ship products embodying the claims. Their primary line of business is providing robotic packaging machinery, including pick-and-place, case packing, and tray packing solutions. As of today's date (2026-06-19), JLS Automation LLC appears to be an active operating company.

Assignment timeline

  • 2019-08-29 (executed) / recorded 2019-08-29 — Reel 050210/0078
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: Pickett, Gary
    • Assignee: JLS Automation, Pennsylvania
    • Correspondent: Not specified in the provided patent text.
    • Context: Original assignment from inventor to operating company.

The USPTO Assignment Center search was performed for US patent 11273944. The search found one assignment record.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11273944
    2019 : Assigned to JLS Automation
    2022 : Issued

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The sole recorded assignment is from the inventor to JLS Automation, which is an operating company.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. JLS Automation LLC is not on common public NPE lists.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — unclear. The correspondent for the initial assignment is not specified in the provided patent text, and there are no subsequent assignments to compare against.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment is recorded.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. No litigation information is available for this patent, and only one assignment exists from the inventor to the assignee.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. JLS Automation is an active company.
  7. Privateering — not present. No evidence of privateering.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent is held by an operating company, not a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. Only one assignment from the inventor to the operating company, JLS Automation LLC, is recorded (Reel 050210/0078, executed and recorded on 2019-08-29). Without further assignment records, there is insufficient information to identify any NPE or troll patterns.

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

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