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

Ishay Sivan (Snapaid Ltd.)

Original assignee

Snapaid Ltd. is the original assignee. It is unclear whether Snapaid Ltd. shipped a product embodying the claims. Based on publicly available information, Snapaid Ltd.'s primary line of business appears to be related to image processing and quality assessment. Its current status is operating.

Assignment timeline

No assignment records were found for US Patent 11671702 on the USPTO Assignment Center.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11671702
    2012 : Priority date
    2022 : Application filed by Snapaid Ltd
    2023 : Granted to Snapaid Ltd

NPE / troll-pattern signals

Shell-entity transfer — not present
Known asserter in the chain — not present
Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present
Cascading transfers — not present
Pre-litigation transfer — unclear (Litigation has been filed, but without assignment records, the timing relative to any transfer is unknown.)
Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present
Privateering — unclear
Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present

Verdict

Insufficient data. There are no recorded assignments for US Patent 11671702 on the USPTO Assignment Center. While litigation has been initiated, without any assignment records, it is not possible to determine if any NPE / patent-troll patterns are present in the ownership chain.

USPTO Assignment Center search: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/