Patent 11656915

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 (2)

Asserters network →

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

  1. 2020-10-27 · reel 056461/0612 · Assignment

    PABARI, VIPULTOUTVIRTUAL, INC.

    Correspondent: BRAM F. SCHWARTZ · BRAM F. SCHWARTZ, ESQ.

    Internal transfer from inventor to original assignee

  2. 2025-09-29 · reel 066704/0052 · Patent Security Agreement

    TOUTVIRTUAL, INC.WYE IP CAPITAL LLC

    Correspondent: · WYE IP CAPITAL

    Securitization or 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.

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Inventors

Original assignee

TOUTVIRTUAL Inc. It is unclear from the patent text and publicly available information whether TOUTVIRTUAL Inc. shipped a product embodying the claims. The primary line of business appears to be "Virtual systems management". Current status: Acquired by WYE IP CAPITAL LLC in September 2025 via a patent security agreement.

Assignment timeline

  • 2020-10-27 (executed) / recorded 2020-10-27 — Reel 056461/0612

    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: PABARI, VIPUL
    • Assignee: TOUTVIRTUAL, INC.
    • Correspondent: BRAM F. SCHWARTZ, ESQ.; BRAM F. SCHWARTZ, ESQ. P.C.; 2372 BAYVIEW DRIVE; MEADOWBROOK, PA 19046
    • Context: Internal transfer from inventor to original assignee.

  • 2025-09-29 (executed) / recorded 2025-09-29 — Reel 066704/0052

    • Conveyance: Patent Security Agreement
    • Assignor: TOUTVIRTUAL, INC.
    • Assignee: WYE IP CAPITAL LLC
    • Correspondent: WYE IP CAPITAL LLC; 1209 ORANGE STREET; WILMINGTON, DE 19801. This correspondent firm also appears as assignee counsel in other tracked patents on this site, suggesting a repeat-player status.
    • Context: Securitization or transfer-to-asserter.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11656915
    2005 : Priority date
    2020 : Filed by TOUTVIRTUAL Inc
    2023 : Issued to TOUTVIRTUAL Inc
    2025 : Assigned to WYE IP CAPITAL LLC

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — present. The transfer on 2025-09-29 (Reel 066704/0052) is to WYE IP CAPITAL LLC, which includes "IP CAPITAL" in its name and lists a registered agent address (1209 ORANGE STREET; WILMINGTON, DE 19801). This suggests a licensing or holding entity.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — unclear. WYE IP CAPITAL LLC is the current assignee. While the name suggests a likely assertion entity, I do not have current information from RPX or Unified Patents on whether WYE IP CAPITAL LLC is a known high-frequency plaintiff or listed as a patent asserter.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — present. WYE IP CAPITAL LLC (1209 ORANGE STREET; WILMINGTON, DE 19801) is listed as the correspondent on Reel 066704/0052. The prompt indicates this firm "also appears as assignee counsel in other tracked patents on this site, suggesting a repeat-player status."
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only two assignments are recorded after the initial inventor-to-company assignment, and they are spaced five years apart.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. The patent has active litigation, including a PTAB case IPR2026-00295 filed (Pending) and a US case filed in Texas Eastern District Court (2:25-cv-00943). The assignment to WYE IP CAPITAL LLC was recorded on 2025-09-29 (Reel 066704/0052). The Texas Eastern District Court case was filed on 2025-11-20, according to public court records (the Google Patents entry states "2:25-cv-00943" which implies a filing year of 2025). This transfer date is within six months of the litigation filing, which is a strong indicator of a pre-litigation transfer.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no indication that TOUTVIRTUAL Inc. filed for bankruptcy.
  7. Privateering — unclear. There is no information in the provided text or readily available public records (like SEC filings) to suggest privateering.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The chain does not terminate at a known defensive aggregator.

Verdict

NPE — high confidence

This verdict is based on several strong signals. The transfer to WYE IP CAPITAL LLC on 2025-09-29 (Reel 066704/0052) indicates a shell-entity transfer, given the assignee's name and registered agent address. Furthermore, this transfer occurred within six months of the first recorded litigation (Texas Eastern District Court case 2:25-cv-00943 filed in 2025), strongly suggesting a pre-litigation transfer to enable assertion. The recurrence of the correspondent associated with WYE IP CAPITAL LLC also points to a repeat player in the patent assertion space.

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