Patent 12063402

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. 2024-03-11 · reel 007205/0249 · Assignment

    MCMILLAN, F. GavinTHE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

    Correspondent: DANIEL E. MULLIN · SUGHRUE MION

    internal reorg

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

Original assignee

Nielsen Co US LLC. Nielsen is a global leader in audience measurement, data, and analytics, providing insights into consumer behavior and media consumption. They ship products and services embodying audience measurement claims. Nielsen Co US LLC is an operating company.

Assignment timeline

  • 2024-03-11 (executed) / recorded 2024-03-11 — Reel 007205/0249
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: MCMILLAN, F. Gavin
    • Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    • Correspondent: DANIEL E. MULLIN, SUGHRUE MION, PLLC, 201824706500, 275000, 20261314540, 275000, 2125 K STREET, NW, SUITE 800, WASHINGTON, DC 20000. This correspondent appears multiple times in this chain.
    • Context: Internal reorg (assignment from inventor to assignee)

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 12063402
    2013 : Priority date
    2024 : Filed by Nielsen Co US LLC
    2024 : Issued
    2024 : Assigned to The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — present. DANIEL E. MULLIN of SUGHRUE MION, PLLC is listed as the correspondent on the assignment from F. Gavin McMillan to THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC (Reel 007205/0249). This is the only assignment on record for this patent.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. No litigation is documented for this specific patent in the provided text.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present
  7. Privateering — not present
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present

Verdict

Insufficient data. The only recorded assignment is from the inventor to the original assignee, which is a standard practice and does not indicate any NPE activity. There are no other assignments to suggest a change in ownership or a pattern of assertion.

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

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