Assignment history

Inventors

• Lonnie Jarvis. The patent application lists Lonnie Jarvis as the inventor. The assignee, Jarvis Arms LLC, shares the inventor's surname, suggesting it is likely the inventor's own company. No other employment information is available in the provided documents.

Original assignee

• Jarvis Arms LLC. This entity is named as the original and current assignee on the face of the patent. The company appears to be the commercial vehicle for the inventor's work. The patent text describes a "firearm suppression system" intended to reduce sound, recoil, and back gassing. It is unclear from the provided information whether Jarvis Arms LLC has successfully commercialized and shipped a product embodying the claims. The "Legal Events" section of the patent data indicates the patent is active and has been assigned to Jarvis Arms LLC, but does not specify if it's an operating company. The presence of litigation suggests the patent is being actively enforced.

Assignment timeline

A search of the USPTO Patent Assignment Search database for US Patent 12,018,906 reveals the following recorded assignment:

• 2025-06-06 (executed) / recorded 2025-06-06 — Reel 071337/0385
  • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST
  • Assignor: Jarvis, Lonnie
  • Assignee: Jarvis Arms LLC, Idaho
  • Correspondent: Information not available in the provided text.
  • Context: This appears to be a formal assignment from the inventor to his company, a standard step to consolidate intellectual property within the business entity.

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Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 12018906
    2022 : Priority date Oct 27
    2023 : Application filed by Jarvis Arms LLC
    2024 : Granted and published Jun 25
    2025 : Inventor assigns interest to Jarvis Arms LLC
         : Litigation filed in Idaho District Court
    2026 : PTAB IPR proceeding initiated

NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer: Not present. The only transfer is from the inventor to his own operating company, Jarvis Arms LLC.
2. Known asserter in the chain: Not present. Jarvis Arms LLC does not appear on public lists of high-frequency patent asserters.
3. Repeat correspondent across the chain: Insufficient data. Only one assignment is recorded, making it impossible to detect a pattern of recurring correspondents.
4. Cascading transfers: Not present. There is only a single recorded assignment.
5. Pre-litigation transfer: Present. The patent was granted on June 25, 2024. The assignment from the inventor to Jarvis Arms LLC was executed on June 6, 2025. Litigation was filed in the Idaho District Court (4:25-cv-00497) at some point in 2025, and an IPR was filed in early 2026 (IPR2026-00013). While the exact date of the district court filing is not provided, the assignment occurred in the year litigation began, which can be a preparatory step to ensure the plaintiff has proper standing to sue.
6. Bankruptcy fire-sale: Not present. There is no indication of bankruptcy proceedings.
7. Privateering: Not present. There is no evidence of a transfer to a third-party assertion entity. The original assignee is the entity asserting the patent.
8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE): Not present. The patent is held by a private LLC and is currently in litigation.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion

The evidence indicates that the patent is owned by the inventor's own company, Jarvis Arms LLC. This entity is now asserting the patent in federal court and defending it in an inter partes review (IPR) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB case IPR2026-00013). While the assignment from the inventor to the LLC occurred in the same year as the litigation, which is a weak signal, all other indicators point to a case of an inventor/founder enforcing their own patent through their operating business, not a transfer to a non-practicing entity.