Patent 12136276

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. ? · recorded 2023-12-01 · reel 202300018544/0831 · Assignment of Assignor's Interest

    KAZMI, SYED WAJAHAT ALI SHAH; ALI, AHMED; HASSAN, ALIKEEP TRUCKIN, INC.

    Correspondent: · PERKINS COIE

    internal reorg

  2. ? · recorded 2023-12-01 · reel 202300018544/0842 · Change of Name

    KEEP TRUCKIN, INC.MOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

    Correspondent: · PERKINS COIE

    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
  • Ahmed Ali
  • Syed Wajahat Ali Shah Kazmi

The patent's assignment record shows an initial transfer from the inventors to Keep Truckin, Inc., which was later renamed Motive Technologies Inc. This indicates the inventors were employees of, or under an obligation to assign inventions to, Keep Truckin, Inc. at the time of the invention. There are no unusual patterns, such as mass departures, noted in the record.

Original assignee

The original assignee is Motive Technologies Inc., a technology company specializing in fleet management hardware and software. The company was founded as Keep Truckin, Inc. in 2013 and rebranded to Motive in 2022.

Motive Technologies ships a range of products, including AI-powered dashcams and fleet management platforms, that directly relate to the patent's claims for "Camera initialization for lane detection and distance estimation using single-view geometry." The company is an active operating entity.

Assignment timeline

A search of the USPTO Patent Assignment database for US patent 12136276 reveals the following recorded instruments.

  • 2023-12-01 (recorded) — Reel 202300018544/0831

    • Conveyance: Assignment of Assignor's Interest
    • Assignor: KAZMI, SYED WAJAHAT ALI SHAH; ALI, AHMED; HASSAN, ALI
    • Assignee: KEEP TRUCKIN, INC.
    • Correspondent: PERKINS COIE LLP, 1201 THIRD AVENUE, SUITE 4900, SEATTLE, WA, 98101
    • Context: Standard initial assignment of invention from the named inventors to their employer.

  • 2023-12-01 (recorded) — Reel 202300018544/0842

    • Conveyance: Change of Name
    • Assignor: KEEP TRUCKIN, INC.
    • Assignee: MOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    • Correspondent: PERKINS COIE LLP, 1201 THIRD AVENUE, SUITE 4900, SEATTLE, WA, 98101
    • Context: A pro-forma recording to reflect the corporate name change from Keep Truckin, Inc. to Motive Technologies, Inc.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 12136276
    2021 : Priority date
    2023 : Inventors assign to Keep Truckin Inc
         : Keep Truckin Inc changes name to Motive Technologies Inc
    2024 : Patent Issued
         : Litigation filed by Motive Technologies
    2026 : IPR filed against patent

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer: Not present. The patent was assigned from the inventors directly to Keep Truckin, Inc. (Reel 202300018544/0831), an operating company. The subsequent transfer was a name change to Motive Technologies, Inc. (Reel 202300018544/0842), the same operating entity.

  2. Known asserter in the chain: Not present. The only assignee, Motive Technologies, Inc., is an operating company and does not appear on public lists of high-frequency non-practicing entities.

  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain: Not present. The same correspondent (Perkins Coie LLP) handled both the inventor assignment and the name change recording. This is standard corporate patent practice and not a signal of NPE activity, as both actions were on behalf of the same ultimate client.

  4. Cascading transfers: Not present. The chain of title is clean and direct from the inventors to the current operating-company owner.

  5. Pre-litigation transfer: Not present. The patent has remained with the original assignee (Motive, formerly Keep Truckin) since its inception. The litigation (3:24-cv-00902) was filed by the same entity that developed the technology.

  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale: Not present.

  7. Privateering: Not present. The operating company, Motive Technologies, Inc., is asserting the patent on its own behalf.

  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE): Not present.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion

The chain of title is straightforward, showing the patent was developed internally and has remained with the original assignee, Motive Technologies, Inc. (formerly Keep Truckin, Inc.), an active operating company that sells products embodying the patented technology. Motive is now asserting this patent directly against a competitor, as evidenced by litigation filed in the Northern District of California (3:24-cv-00902). The record contains no signals of NPE or patent troll activity.

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