Patent 12062243

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 (2)

Asserters network →

Structured records extracted from the assignment-history narrative below. Each entity links to its full ownership-network profile.

  1. 2023-09-20 · Assignment

    ALI, AHMED; ALI, AFSHEEN RAFAQAT; FAISAL, Muhammad; HASSAN, ALI; AKHTER, IJAZKEEP TRUCKIN, INC.

    Correspondent: Jeffrey M. Blake · PATENT LAW GROUP

    transfer-to-original-assignee

  2. 2023-09-20 · Change of Name

    KEEP TRUCKIN, INC.MOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

    Correspondent: Jeffrey M. Blake · PATENT LAW GROUP

    change of name only

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

  • Ali Hassan: Motive Technologies Inc.
  • Ijaz AKHTER: Motive Technologies Inc.
  • Muhammad FAISAL: Motive Technologies Inc.
  • Afsheen Rafaqat ALI: Motive Technologies Inc.
  • Ahmed Ali: Motive Technologies Inc.

No unusual patterns observed in inventor departures based on the provided information.

Original assignee

Motive Technologies Inc. The patent describes "distracted driving detection using a multi-task training process" with applications in "accident prevention as well as fleet management" and "Smart artificial (AI) dashcam solutions". Motive Technologies Inc. (formerly KeepTruckin, Inc.) is a technology company that provides a fleet management platform, including AI dashcams, which embody the claims of the patent. Motive Technologies Inc. is currently operating.

Assignment timeline

  • 2023-09-20 (executed) / recorded 2023-09-20

    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: ALI, AHMED; ALI, AFSHEEN RAFAQAT; FAISAL, Muhammad; HASSAN, ALI; AKHTER, IJAZ
    • Assignee: Keep Truckin, Inc.
    • Correspondent: Jeffrey M. Blake, PATENT LAW GROUP LLP, 28400 ORCHARD LAKE ROAD, SUITE 250, FARMINGTON HILLS, MI 48334.
    • Context: Transfer of inventor interests to original assignee.

  • 2023-09-20 (executed) / recorded 2023-09-20

    • Conveyance: Change of Name
    • Assignor: Keep Truckin, Inc.
    • Assignee: MOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    • Correspondent: Jeffrey M. Blake, PATENT LAW GROUP LLP, 28400 ORCHARD LAKE ROAD, SUITE 250, FARMINGTON HILLS, MI 48334. This correspondent recurs in this chain.
    • Context: Corporate name change.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 12062243
    2023 : Inventors assigned to Keep Truckin Inc
         : Keep Truckin changed name to Motive Technologies Inc
    2024 : Issued to Motive Technologies Inc

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The assignments are from individual inventors to an operating company and a corporate name change for the operating company.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Motive Technologies Inc. is an operating company. No known NPEs are present in the assignment chain.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — present. Jeffrey M. Blake of PATENT LAW GROUP LLP handled both the assignment from the inventors to Keep Truckin, Inc. and the subsequent Change of Name from Keep Truckin, Inc. to Motive Technologies, Inc..
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only two recorded events, both on the same day and involving a name change.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. While there is litigation listed for this patent (a US case filed in California Northern District Court and a PTAB case IPR2026-00108), the earliest assignment listed is on 2023-09-20, and the patent was granted on 2024-08-13. The district court case was filed on 2024-02-29 and the IPR was filed on 2025-11-20. The assignments occurred before the patent issued.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no indication of bankruptcy.
  7. Privateering — not present. There is no evidence of privateering.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The chain ends with an operating company, Motive Technologies Inc.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion The patent was assigned from the inventors to Keep Truckin, Inc., which subsequently changed its name to Motive Technologies Inc. These are operating companies that ship products embodying the claims. While litigation has been filed related to this patent, it appears to be an operating company asserting its intellectual property. The recurring correspondent attorney indicates continuity within the company's patent activities rather than a transfer to a shell entity for assertion purposes.

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