Patent 12110089

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)

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

  1. 2023-06-15 · recorded 2023-06-16 · reel 063978/0348 · ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST

    COLLIE, STEPHEN JAMESTEAM NEW ZEALAND LIMITED, NEW ZEALAND

    Correspondent: MCKEE, JOHN B.

    Original assignment from inventor to 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

Stephen James COLLIE (Team New Zealand Ltd)

Original assignee

Team New Zealand Ltd. As an America's Cup sailing team, Team New Zealand Ltd designs, builds, and races yachts, which would embody the claimed sail structure. Their primary line of business is competitive yacht racing and associated technology development. The current status of Team New Zealand Ltd is operating.

Assignment timeline

  • US patent 12110089 has one assignment record:
    • 2023-06-15 (executed) / recorded 2023-06-16 — Reel 063978/0348
      • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST
      • Assignor: COLLIE, STEPHEN JAMES
      • Assignee: TEAM NEW ZEALAND LIMITED, NEW ZEALAND
      • Correspondent: MCKEE, JOHN B.
      • Context: Original assignment from inventor to assignee.

Timeline diagram

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    title Ownership of US 12110089
    2023 : Inventor to Team New Zealand Ltd

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present (The sole assignment is from the inventor to Team New Zealand Ltd, an operating company that builds and races yachts.)
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present (Team New Zealand Ltd is not identified on public NPE lists.)
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present (Only one assignment is recorded, so no recurrence can be observed.)
  4. Cascading transfers — not present (Only one assignment is recorded.)
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear (While a PTAB case PGR2025-00062 was filed on 2025-08-19, more than a year after the assignment date, the record does not provide sufficient information to determine if this was a pre-litigation transfer related to other potential infringement suits.)
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present (No indication of bankruptcy for the assignor or assignee.)
  7. Privateering — not present (No evidence of privateering in the assignment record or other provided information.)
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present (The patent is owned by an operating company, not a defensive aggregator.)

Verdict

Insufficient data. The sole assignment on record is from the inventor to Team New Zealand Ltd, an operating company. While there is a PTAB case filed, the available data does not provide enough information to definitively classify this patent as being asserted by an NPE or to observe any other NPE patterns.
For verification, see USPTO Assignment Center: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/

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