Patent 11693938

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.

2020-08-27 · recorded 2022-05-04 · reel 058866/0588 · ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST
TUSSY, KEVIN ALAN FACETEC, INC.
Correspondent: HOOPES, JEFFREY · HOOPES & ADAMS
inventor-to-company transfer

Assignment history

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Inventors

Kevin Alan Tussy (Facetec Inc.)

Original assignee

The original assignee, Facetec Inc., develops and provides a biometric authentication platform called "Zoom" which embodies facial recognition and liveness detection technologies as described in the patent claims. Facetec Inc.'s primary line of business is biometric identity verification and anti-spoofing solutions for enterprise clients. Facetec Inc. is currently operating.

Assignment timeline

There is only one assignment record for US11693938 in the USPTO Assignment Center.

2020-08-27 (executed) / recorded 2022-05-04 — Reel 058866/0588
- Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST
- Assignor: TUSSY, KEVIN ALAN
- Assignee: FACETEC, INC.
- Correspondent: HOOPES, JEFFREY, HOOPES & ADAMS, PC, 19570 VENTURA BLVD, SUITE 300, TARZANA, CA 91356.
- Context: Inventor assigned intellectual property rights to his company, Facetec Inc.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11693938
    2020 : Inventor assigned to Facetec
         : Application filed by Facetec
    2023 : Patent issued to Facetec
    2024 : US litigation filed
    2025 : PTAB IPR case filed

NPE / troll-pattern signals

Shell-entity transfer — Not present. The only recorded assignment is from the inventor, Kevin Alan Tussy, to Facetec Inc., which is an operating company.
Known asserter in the chain — Not present. Facetec Inc. is an operating company known for its biometric authentication products. Litigation associated with the patent (e.g., California Northern District Court cases and PTAB IPR2025-00108) appears to be initiated by the operating company.
Repeat correspondent across the chain — Unclear. Jeffrey Hoopes of Hoopes & Adams, PC is listed as the correspondent for the single assignment recorded (Reel 058866/0588). There is no recurrence of this correspondent within this specific patent's assignment chain to identify a pattern.
Cascading transfers — Not present. There is only one recorded assignment in the chain.
Pre-litigation transfer — Not present. The assignment from the inventor to Facetec Inc. was executed on 2020-08-27 (recorded 2022-05-04), while the earliest identified litigation for the patent was filed in 2024.
Bankruptcy fire-sale — Not present. Facetec Inc. is an actively operating company, and there is no indication of bankruptcy proceedings.
Privateering — Not present. No transfer from an operating company to a third-party NPE for assertion is indicated in the assignment records.
Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — Not present. The patent is currently held by Facetec Inc. and is actively being asserted in litigation, not aggregated by a defensive entity.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion
This patent is held by Facetec Inc., an operating company that develops and markets biometric authentication products. The sole recorded assignment is from the inventor to Facetec Inc. (Reel 058866/0588, executed 2020-08-27), and the patent is actively involved in litigation where Facetec Inc. appears to be the plaintiff.

Verification: USPTO Assignment Center for US11693938

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