Patent 12133078

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. 2022-08-23 · recorded 2024-04-05 · reel 067016/0928 · Assignment

    Graham DugoniYONDR, INC.

    Formal transfer of the inventor's rights to the original operating company assignee.

  2. 2025-06-17 · Security Agreement

    YONDR, INC.JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.

    securitization

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

  • Graham Dugoni. At the time of the priority filing (April 21, 2015), Graham Dugoni was the inventor and Yondr Inc. was the original assignee. There is no information to suggest he departed the original assignee within 12 months of filing. [cite: US12133078B2]

Original assignee

The original assignee is Yondr Inc. [cite: US12133078B2].
Yondr Inc. is known for its product, a locking pouch for mobile electronic devices, which embodies the claims of US12133078B2. Their primary line of business is providing mobile device-free environments through these proprietary locking pouches and associated technology for events, schools, and other venues. [cite: US12133078B2]
According to Google Patents, Yondr Inc. is currently "Active". [cite: US12133078B2]

Assignment timeline

Based on the provided Google Patents legal events for US12133078B2:

  • 2022-08-23 (executed) / recorded 2024-04-05 — Reel 067016/0928

    • Conveyance: Assignment (ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST) [cite: US12133078B2]
    • Assignor: Graham Dugoni [cite: US12133078B2]
    • Assignee: YONDR, INC. [cite: US12133078B2]
    • Correspondent: Not specified in the provided text.
    • Context: Formal transfer of the inventor's rights to the original operating company assignee.

  • 2025-06-17 (executed) / recorded 2025-06-17 — Reel N/A (not provided in text)

    • Conveyance: Security Interest [cite: US12133078B2]
    • Assignor: YONDR, INC. [cite: US12133078B2]
    • Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. [cite: US12133078B2]
    • Correspondent: Not specified in the provided text.
    • Context: Securitization; the patent is used as collateral for financing.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 12133078
    2015 : Priority date
    2022 : Inventor assigns to Yondr Inc
    2024 : Application filed
         : Assignment recorded
         : Patent granted
    2025 : Security interest to JPMorgan

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — Not present. Yondr Inc. is an operating company known for its product related to the patent. The assignment from the inventor to Yondr Inc. is a standard transfer of rights, and the subsequent security interest involves a financial institution. [cite: US12133078B2]
  2. Known asserter in the chain — Not present. The assignees are Yondr Inc. (an operating company) and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (a financial institution with a security interest), neither of which are identified as known patent assertion entities. [cite: US12133078B2]
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — Unclear. Correspondent information for the assignments is not provided in the source text.
  4. Cascading transfers — Not present. Only two transfers are noted: one from the inventor to the operating company and one security interest, which do not constitute multiple consecutive assignments through chained LLCs. [cite: US12133078B2]
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — Not present. The assignment from the inventor Graham Dugoni to Yondr Inc. was executed on 2022-08-23 and recorded on 2024-04-05. While litigation related to the patent family was filed in 2024, the transfer to the operating company occurred prior to or around the time of this litigation, representing a standard transfer of inventor rights to the company that develops and asserts its own IP. [cite: US12133078B2]
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — Not present. Yondr Inc. is listed as "Active" by Google Patents, indicating it has not undergone bankruptcy. [cite: US12133078B2]
  7. Privateering — Not present. There is no evidence in the provided data to suggest Yondr Inc. has transferred the patent to an NPE to assert on its behalf.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — Not present. The current owners are Yondr Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (via a security interest), none of which are defensive aggregators. [cite: US12133078B2]

Verdict

Operating-company assertion
The patent is owned by Yondr Inc., an operating company that sells products embodying the claims of the patent. The assignments reflect a standard transfer from the inventor to the company and a security interest to a bank, not a transfer to a shell entity for assertion purposes. While litigation is ongoing, it appears to be initiated by the operating company itself.
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