Patent 11327669

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. 2020-11-10 · reel 055394/0978 · Assignment of Assignors Interest

    REH, JEFFREY; SQUIRES, CHRISTOPHER; WILSON, BRIAN; JOHNSON, JOSHUA; BRUNER, CURTGAEA LLC

    Correspondent: Jeffrey B. Wilson · One

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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

  • Joshua Johnson: Employer not determinable from the provided patent text.
  • Curt Bruner: Employer not determinable from the provided patent text.
  • Jeffrey Reh: Employer not determinable from the provided patent text.
  • Christopher Squires: Employer not determinable from the provided patent text.
  • Brian Wilson: Employer not determinable from the provided patent text.

No unusual patterns regarding inventor departure are determinable from the provided information.

Original assignee

The entity named on the issued patent is Gaea LLC.

It is not determinable from the provided information whether Gaea LLC ships a product embodying the claims or its primary line of business.

Current status: Active, as indicated by the "Legal status" on Google Patents.

Assignment timeline

The USPTO Assignment Center (https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/) shows the following record for US Patent 11327669:

  • 2020-11-10 (executed) / recorded 2020-11-10 — Reel 055394/0978
    • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors Interest
    • Assignor: REH, JEFFREY; SQUIRES, CHRISTOPHER; WILSON, BRIAN; JOHNSON, JOSHUA; BRUNER, CURT
    • Assignee: Gaea LLC
    • Correspondent: Jeffrey B. Wilson, One LLP, 4000 MacArthur Blvd., East Tower, Suite 500, Newport Beach, CA 92660. This correspondent does not recur in this chain.
    • Context: Transfer of inventor rights to the original assignee.

No further assignment records for US Patent 11327669 were found on the USPTO Assignment Center. This indicates that Gaea LLC is the current assignee of record.

Gaea LLC, as the assignee, appears to be a company focused on providing business-process and information-technology solutions, with expertise in Oracle enterprise products, supply chain management, and project portfolio management. They also offer application development, data management, cloud computing, gaming software, system integration, and technical support. There appear to be multiple entities named "Gaea LLC" with different business focuses, including entertainment software development (acquired by Embracer Group in 2021), a family-run business selling memories and gifts, a company selling organic energy drinks, a wholesale stationery supplier, and a developer of an AI framework for emotional modeling. However, the Gaea LLC associated with the patent explicitly states "Gaea Global Technologies, Inc. Gaea. Our business-process and information-technology experts provide innovative, cost-effective solutions that improve operations at some of the largest firms in the world, and we do it with an intimate knowledge of the Oracle enterprise products that we helped pioneer." This suggests the assignee is Gaea Global Technologies, Inc., operating as Gaea.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11327669
    2020 : Inventors assign to Gaea LLC
    2022 : Issued to Gaea LLC
    2026 : First infringement suit filed
         : Second infringement suit filed

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — unclear. While "Gaea LLC" could suggest a shell, the available information from PitchBook and their website describes Gaea Global Technologies, Inc. as an Oracle Partner providing consulting and enterprise solutions. However, it is not explicitly clear if this specific Gaea LLC that owns the patent ships a product embodying the claims of the patent.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Gaea LLC does not appear on public NPE lists based on the provided information.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. The correspondent, Jeffrey B. Wilson of One LLP, is listed only once for the initial assignment from the inventors to Gaea LLC.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment from inventors to Gaea LLC is recorded.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. The assignment to Gaea LLC was recorded on 2020-11-10, significantly before the first infringement suit filed on March 23, 2026.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. No indication of bankruptcy for Gaea LLC.
  7. Privateering — unclear. While Gaea LLC is asserting against large tech companies, there is no public record from SEC filings or other sources to suggest an operating company transferred the patent to Gaea LLC to assert on its behalf.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent has been asserted in litigation, indicating it is not held by a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

NPE — moderate confidence

The absence of clear evidence that Gaea LLC ships a product embodying the claims, combined with their recent activity in filing multiple infringement lawsuits against major tech companies (Meta Platforms, Inc. and [Samsung Electronics Co Ltd](/litigations/by-plaintiff/Samsung%20Electronics%20Co%20Ltd)) shortly after the patent's issuance, suggests a potential NPE assertion strategy. However, the lack of other strong NPE signals (like shell-entity transfers, known NPE names, or repeat correspondents across a chain of assignments) prevents a high-confidence verdict.

To verify, search US11327669 on the USPTO Patent Assignment Search: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/

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