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.

Assignment history

Inventors

Sang Hoon Lee (AQ Corp), Kyoung Jun CHOI (AQ Corp), Sae Rom LEE (AQ Corp).
Sang Hoon Lee is identified as the president of AQ Corporation, the original assignee, suggesting the inventors were employees of the company at the time of filing. No unusual patterns of inventors departing the original assignee within 12 months of filing are determinable from the provided information.

Original assignee

The original assignee on the issued patent US11303011 is AQ Corp (also referred to as AQ Corporation). Their primary line of business involves being a global provider of NFC antennas for smartphone manufacturers and NFC unified solutions. This indicates that they ship products embodying the claims of the patent. AQ Corporation is part of the larger AQ Group, a global manufacturer of components and systems for industrial customers, which is currently operating and listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

Assignment timeline

The USPTO Patent Assignment Search (https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/patents/[11303011](/patent/11303011), accessed 2026-05-28) shows no recorded assignments for US patent 11303011. This indicates that, according to official USPTO assignment records, the original assignee, AQ Corp, still holds ownership of the patent.