Patent 12028793

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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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

  • Peter D. Karabinis: Employer at time of filing not explicitly stated in the patent document.
  • Rajendra Singh: Employer at time of filing not explicitly stated in the patent document.

The patent document does not specify the employers of the inventors at the time of filing. The current assignee, Telcom Ventures LLC, is listed as the original assignee on Google Patents, suggesting the inventors may have been associated with this entity.

Original assignee

The original assignee named on the issued patent is Telcom Ventures LLC.

It is unclear from the provided patent text whether Telcom Ventures LLC ships a product embodying the claims or their primary line of business.

Current status: Active.

Assignment timeline

The USPTO Assignment Center (https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/) was searched for patent number 12028793. As of 2026-05-22, there are no recorded assignments for US Patent 12028793 in the USPTO Assignment Center. This indicates that the ownership of the patent remains with the original assignee, Telcom Ventures LLC.

Telcom Ventures LLC is described as a principal investment firm specializing in venture capital and private equity investments, focusing on the domestic and international wireless communications industries. They seek to invest in telecommunications, wireless communication and network, technology, Internet and design and engineering. They have made investments in various companies within these sectors. It is not clear whether Telcom Ventures LLC directly ships products embodying the claims of US12028793.

Timeline diagram

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    title Ownership of US 12028793
    2008 : Filed by Telcom Ventures LLC
    2024 : Issued to Telcom Ventures LLC

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The patent has not been transferred from Telcom Ventures LLC according to the USPTO Assignment Center records.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Telcom Ventures LLC is not identified as a known NPE on public lists.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. There are no recorded assignments, so no correspondent chain to analyze.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. There are no recorded assignments.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. There are no recorded assignments.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no indication of Telcom Ventures LLC filing for bankruptcy and subsequently selling the patent.
  7. Privateering — unclear. Without assignment records or specific information about Telcom Ventures LLC's assertion strategies, it is not possible to determine if privateering is occurring.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent has not been assigned to a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data. There are no recorded assignments for US Patent 12028793 in the USPTO Assignment Center (https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/). Therefore, it is not possible to assess NPE/troll-pattern signals beyond the original assignment to Telcom Ventures LLC.

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