Patent 11656067

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. 2021-08-13 · Assignment

    KHANGAR, ABHIJEET A., VITAS, JONATHAN F.MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION

    internal reorg

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

Original assignee

The original assignee is Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp. They ship products embodying the claims, as the patent relates to tape measures and Milwaukee Tool is a multinational company that manufactures and markets hand tools, including tape measures. Their primary line of business is the development, manufacturing, and marketing of power tools, hand tools, tool accessories, tool storage, and personal protective equipment. Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp operates as an independent subsidiary of TTI Group.

Assignment timeline

  • 2021-08-13 (executed) / recorded N/A — Reel N/A
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: KHANGAR, ABHIJEET A., VITAS, JONATHAN F.
    • Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    • Correspondent: N/A
    • Context: Internal reorg (assignment from inventors to their employer)

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11656067
    2017 : Priority date
    2021 : Application filed by Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp
         : Inventors assigned patent to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp
    2023 : Patent granted

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The initial assignment is from the inventors to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, an operating company. No evidence of transfer to a shell entity.

  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation is an operating company, not a known NPE.

  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — unclear. Only one assignment is recorded from the inventors to Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, and no correspondent is listed for this initial internal assignment. Without further assignments, it's not possible to determine if a correspondent recurs.

  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment is recorded.

  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. There is no litigation information present in the patent text or search results to determine if this occurred.

  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp is an active, operating subsidiary.

  7. Privateering — not present. There is no indication of Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp transferring this patent to an NPE to assert on their behalf.

  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent remains with Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp, an operating company, not a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. Only one assignment is recorded for this patent, which is the initial assignment from the individual inventors to their employer, Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation. Milwaukee Tool is an operating company that manufactures and sells products related to the patent. Therefore, there are no signals of NPE activity in the available assignment record.

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