Patent 11942624

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.

  1. 2021-06-21 · reel 057039/0157 · Assignment of Assignors Interest

    Gleb Yushin, Bogdan Zdyrko, Addison Shelton, Eugene Berdichevsky, Igor Luzinov, Alexander Jacobs, Eerik Hantsoo, George GomesSILA NANOTECHNOLOGIES, INC.

    Correspondent: Jeffrey M. Telechea · Dardi & Herbert

    Original assignment from inventors to the corporate assignee

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

  • Gleb Yushin (Sila Nanotechnologies Inc.)
  • Bogdan Zdyrko (Sila Nanotechnologies Inc.)
  • Addison Shelton (Sila Nanotechnologies Inc.)
  • Eugene Berdichevsky (Sila Nanotechnologies Inc.)
  • Igor Luzinov (Sila Nanotechnologies Inc.)
  • Alexander Jacobs (Sila Nanotechnologies Inc.)
  • Eerik Hantsoo (Sila Nanotechnologies Inc.)
  • George Gomes (Sila Nanotechnologies Inc.)

All inventors appear to have been employed by Sila Nanotechnologies Inc. at the time of filing, as Sila Nanotechnologies Inc. is listed as the original assignee.

Original assignee

The original assignee is Sila Nanotechnologies Inc.

Sila Nanotechnologies Inc. is an operating company whose primary line of business is the development and production of next-generation lithium-ion battery materials, specifically silicon-anode technology. They ship products embodying the claims, such as their Titan Battery Materials, which began shipping in Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles in 2023. Sila Nanotechnologies Inc. is currently an active, operating company.

Assignment timeline

A search on the USPTO Assignment Center for patent number US11942624 (https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/) shows the following record:

  • 2021-06-21 (executed) / recorded 2021-06-21 — Reel 057039/0157
    • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignors Interest
    • Assignor: Gleb Yushin, Bogdan Zdyrko, Addison Shelton, Eugene Berdichevsky, Igor Luzinov, Alexander Jacobs, Eerik Hantsoo, George Gomes (all inventors)
    • Assignee: SILA NANOTECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    • Correspondent: Jeffrey M. Telechea, Dardi & Herbert, PLLC, 1600 West 38th Street, Suite 310, Austin, TX 78731.
    • Context: Original assignment from inventors to the corporate assignee.

No other assignments were found for US11942624 on the USPTO Assignment Center as of today's date.

Timeline diagram

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    title Ownership of US11942624
    2021 : Inventors assigned to Sila Nanotechnologies Inc
    2024 : Patent granted

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — Not present. The patent remains with Sila Nanotechnologies Inc., an operating company that manufactures and sells battery materials.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — Not present. Sila Nanotechnologies Inc. is not identified as a known patent asserter on public NPE lists.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — Insufficient data. Only one assignment is recorded, so there is no chain to observe recurrence. The correspondent, Jeffrey M. Telechea of Dardi & Herbert, PLLC, appears only once for this patent.
  4. Cascading transfers — Not present. Only one assignment is recorded.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — Not present. There is no litigation found for this patent.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — Not present. Sila Nanotechnologies Inc. is an active, operating company, not in bankruptcy.
  7. Privateering — Not present. The patent is held by the operating company, Sila Nanotechnologies Inc.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — Not present. The patent is held by an operating company, not a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. Only the initial assignment from the inventors to the original operating company, Sila Nanotechnologies Inc., is recorded. There are no subsequent transfers or other events in the assignment chain to indicate NPE activity. The original assignee is an active operating company that ships products embodying the claims.

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

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