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

Richard D. Haney; Employer: XONE Inc. (at the time of filing)

Original assignee

The original assignee on the issued patent is XONE Inc. It is unclear from the provided patent text whether XONE Inc. shipped a product embodying the claims. The primary line of business for XONE Inc., based on the patent, appears to be related to location-sharing applications and associated services for wireless communication networks. Their current status (operating, acquired, dissolved, in bankruptcy) is not determinable from the provided information.

Assignment timeline

I will search the USPTO Assignment Center for US patent 11778415.

There are no recorded assignments for US Patent 11778415 in the USPTO Assignment Center as of May 30, 2026. This indicates that the ownership of the patent remains with the original assignee, XONE Inc.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11778415
    2022 : Filed by XONE Inc
    2023 : Issued to XONE Inc

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 — not present
Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present
Privateering — not present
Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present

Verdict

Insufficient data.
Since there are no recorded assignments for US Patent 11778415, there is insufficient data to determine if NPE/troll patterns are present. The patent remains with the original assignee, XONE Inc. (as of 2026-05-30).