Patent 12110780

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

The sole inventor named on US Patent 12110780 is Clinton Moss. At the time of filing, Clinton Moss was the President of Gunnar Energy Services (also referred to as Gunnar LLLP). He founded Gunnar in 2019, and the company specializes in magnetic ranging, relief well, and plug and abandonment operations.

Original assignee

The original assignee named on the issued patent is Gunnar LLLP. Gunnar Energy Services (Gunnar LLLP) ships products embodying the claims, specifically a suite of magnetic ranging technologies for wellbore placement and relief well solutions, including a "Coiled Tubing Ranging while Drilling Technology" (CTRWD™) which is directly related to the patent's subject matter. Their primary line of business is providing wellbore placement, active magnetic ranging, and relief well solutions for various energy applications (oil & gas, CCUS, solution mining, geothermal). Gunnar LLLP is currently an active, independently owned and operated company.

Assignment timeline

The USPTO Assignment Center (https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/) shows no recorded assignments for US Patent 12110780. Therefore, the original assignee, Gunnar LLLP, is presumed to still own the patent.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 12110780
    2023 : Filed by Gunnar LLLP
    2024 : Issued to Gunnar LLLP

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The patent remains with Gunnar LLLP, which is an operating company actively providing services and products related to the patent.

  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Gunnar LLLP is not identified on public NPE lists from Unified Patents or RPX.

  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. There are no recorded assignments for this patent.

  4. Cascading transfers — not present. There are no recorded assignments for this patent.

  5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. There are no recorded assignments for this patent.

  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no indication that Gunnar LLLP is in bankruptcy or that the patent was acquired through a fire-sale.

  7. Privateering — not present. There are no recorded assignments or SEC filings suggesting privateering activity.

  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent remains with Gunnar LLLP, an operating company.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion
The patent is currently assigned to Gunnar LLLP, which is an active operating company that markets and sells products and services directly embodying the claims of the patent, specifically magnetic ranging while drilling technologies. There are no recorded assignments that suggest a transfer to a non-practicing entity.
Verification: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/patent/index.html (search by patent number 12110780)

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