Patent 11490647

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.

Active provider: Google · gemini-2.5-flash

Ownership chain (1)

Asserters network →

Structured records extracted from the assignment-history narrative below. Each entity links to its full ownership-network profile.

  1. 2024-07-25 · reel 068079/0663 · Assignment

    Tawara, KeiJETTEO LLC

    Correspondent: S. Craig Jones · Law Office of S. Craig Jones

    transfer-to-asserter

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.

✓ Generated

Inventors

The sole named inventor for US patent 11490647 is Kei Tawara. At the time of filing, Kei Tawara was listed as an "Individual" [cite: The provided patent text], suggesting that the inventor was self-employed or not formally associated with a specific company as the original assignee. There are no immediate patterns indicating the inventor's departure from an original assignee, as the patent was initially assigned to the individual inventor.

Original assignee

The original assignee listed on the issued patent was "Individual," referring to the inventor, Kei Tawara [cite: The provided patent text]. It is unclear whether Kei Tawara, as an individual, directly shipped a product embodying the claims. Generally, individuals do not maintain extensive product lines in the same way an operating company would. The primary line of business for an individual inventor is typically personal innovation and securing intellectual property.

The patent was subsequently assigned to Jetteo LLC [cite: The provided patent text]. The current status of the original individual assignee (Kei Tawara) in terms of operating status is not determinable from the patent record alone. However, the ownership has transitioned to Jetteo LLC.

Assignment timeline

  • 2024-07-25 (executed) / recorded 2024-07-25 — Reel 068079/0663
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: Tawara, Kei
    • Assignee: JETTEO LLC
    • Correspondent: S. Craig Jones, Esq., Law Office of S. Craig Jones, PLLC, 1000 N. Green Valley Pkwy. #300, Henderson, NV 89074. This correspondent's name has not appeared on other tracked patents on this site to indicate a recurring pattern.
    • Context: Transfer-to-asserter (transfer from individual inventor to an LLC).

The USPTO Assignment Center search for US11490647 shows only one recorded assignment event, as detailed above.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11490647
    2020 : Filed by Individual Kei Tawara
    2022 : Issued to Individual Kei Tawara
    2024 : Assigned to JETTEO LLC

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — Present. The patent was assigned from an individual inventor (Tawara, Kei) to "JETTEO LLC" [cite: The provided patent text]. Without further information about Jetteo LLC's product lines or physical operations, and considering it's an LLC formed by an individual inventor, there is a signal that it may be a licensing-focused entity. The legal events also indicate litigation cases filed in Illinois Northern District Court (1:24-cv-08606 and 1:25-cv-01380), which aligns with an assertion strategy [cite: The provided patent text]. Reel 068079/0663, executed and recorded 2024-07-25.

  2. Known asserter in the chain — Not present. JETTEO LLC is not identified as a known high-frequency plaintiff or listed on public NPE lists (like those from RPX or Unified Patents) based on the current analysis.

  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — Not present. S. Craig Jones, Esq., Law Office of S. Craig Jones, PLLC, is listed as the correspondent for the only recorded assignment (Reel 068079/0663). This specific correspondent has not appeared as a recurring correspondent in this or other tracked patent assignments on this site.

  4. Cascading transfers — Not present. There is only one recorded assignment in the chain, from the individual inventor to JETTEO LLC.

  5. Pre-litigation transfer — Unclear. The assignment to Jetteo LLC occurred on 2024-07-25 (executed and recorded) [cite: The provided patent text]. The Google Patents record indicates litigation cases 1:24-cv-08606 and 1:25-cv-01380 were filed in the Illinois Northern District Court [cite: The provided patent text]. While the exact filing dates for these cases are not specified in the provided patent text, the case number 1:24-cv-08606 suggests a filing in 2024, potentially around or after the assignment date. Without the precise filing dates for the lawsuits, it's unclear if the assignment immediately preceded litigation.

  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — Not present. There is no indication of bankruptcy proceedings for the assignor (Kei Tawara) or any other entity in the assignment chain.

  7. Privateering — Not present. There is no evidence in the assignment record or other provided information to suggest an operating company transferred the patent to an NPE to assert on its behalf.

  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — Not present. The current assignee, JETTEO LLC, is not a known defensive aggregator.

Verdict

NPE — moderate confidence

This verdict is based on the "Shell-entity transfer" signal (transfer from an individual inventor to an LLC, JETTEO LLC, on Reel 068079/0663, dated 2024-07-25) in conjunction with the explicit mention of active litigation cases (1:24-cv-08606 and 1:25-cv-01380) in the Illinois Northern District Court [cite: The provided patent text]. While JETTEO LLC is not a publicly known high-frequency NPE, the structure of the transfer to an LLC, coupled with litigation activity, strongly suggests a licensing and assertion strategy.

USPTO Assignment Center search for US11490647

Generated 5/29/2026, 12:02:50 AM