Assignment history

Inventors

• Ulrik Wisløff: Professor and Head of the Cardiac Exercise Research Group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) at the time of the priority date (March 20, 2014). He is also noted as the inventor of the Personalized Activity Intelligence (PAI) system.
• Christian Ragnar Gutvik: Employer at the time of the priority date is not explicitly stated in the provided search results. Given his co-inventorship with Ulrik Wisløff, it is plausible he was also affiliated with NTNU or a related research institution in 2014.

Original assignee

The original assignee, as listed on the issued patent, is Beijing Shunyuan Kaihua Technology Co Ltd.

Beijing Shunyuan Kaihua Technology Co Ltd ("Shun Yuan") is a wholly-owned foreign enterprise incorporated with limited liability in the People's Republic of China and a subsidiary of Zepp Health Corporation (formerly Huami Corporation). Zepp Health Corporation is a global sports and wellness technology company primarily engaged in developing, manufacturing, and selling smart health wearable products under brands like Amazfit and Zepp Aura. Given this, Beijing Shunyuan Kaihua Technology Co Ltd likely ships products embodying the claims, or is a critical part of the supply chain for such products. The company is currently operating as a subsidiary of Zepp Health Corporation, which is a publicly traded entity (NYSE: ZEPP).

Assignment timeline

A search of the USPTO Patent Assignment Search database for US patent 11,806,120 reveals no recorded assignments for this patent. This indicates that the ownership has remained with the original assignee, Beijing Shunyuan Kaihua Technology Co Ltd, since the patent was granted. It is possible that the assignment from the inventors to Beijing Shunyuan Kaihua Technology Co Ltd occurred prior to the filing of the application (or its parent application) and was therefore recorded at the application level rather than as a post-issuance assignment, or it was never separately recorded for this particular continuation patent.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 11806120
    2014 : Priority date
    2021 : Filed by Beijing Shunyuan Kaihua
    2023 : Issued to Beijing Shunyuan Kaihua

NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The patent remains with Beijing Shunyuan Kaihua Technology Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Zepp Health Corporation, which is an operating company engaged in the manufacturing and sale of smart wearable products. There is no evidence of transfer to a licensing-only shell entity.

2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Beijing Shunyuan Kaihua Technology Co Ltd and its parent, Zepp Health Corporation, are not identified as known NPEs on public lists.

3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. There is no assignment chain for this patent, thus no recurring correspondent.

4. Cascading transfers — not present. No transfers are recorded in the assignment database for this patent.

5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. No litigation is known for this patent, and no assignments have occurred.

6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. Zepp Health Corporation is an active, publicly traded company.

7. Privateering — not present. There is no indication of transfer to an NPE to assert on behalf of an operating company.

8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent is not currently assigned to a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data.
While the current assignee, Beijing Shunyuan Kaihua Technology Co Ltd, is part of an operating company (Zepp Health Corporation) that manufactures relevant products, the absence of any assignment records for this specific patent (US11806120) in the USPTO Assignment Center means there is insufficient information to fully analyze the ownership chain or definitively identify NPE/troll patterns. The original assignment from the inventors to the assignee likely occurred at the time of the initial application filing and is not explicitly available for this continuation patent.

USPTO Patent Assignment Search for US11806120: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/patent/index.html