Patent 12163947

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. 2024-11-05 · reel 069145/0610 · Assignment

    MORISSETTE, GUY; CLEMENT, FRANCISBID GROUP TECHNOLOGIES LTD, CANADA

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

  • Francis Clement: Employed by Bid Group Technologies Ltd. at the time of filing. (Assumed, as inventors typically assign rights to their employers).
  • Guy Morissette: Employed by Bid Group Technologies Ltd. at the time of filing. (Assumed, as inventors typically assign rights to their employers).

Original assignee

Bid Group Technologies Ltd. is the entity named on the issued patent. They ship products embodying the claims, as they are a manufacturer and provider of wood processing equipment and turnkey management services, including advanced digital technologies and AI for sawmill operations. Their primary line of business is providing integrated solutions for the wood processing industry, encompassing engineering, equipment, software, installation, startup, and aftermarket services. Bid Group Technologies Ltd. is currently operating and recently rebranded to Comact in September 2024.

Assignment timeline

  • 2024-11-05 (executed) / recorded 2024-11-05 — Reel 069145/0610
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: MORISSETTE, GUY; CLEMENT, FRANCIS
    • Assignee: BID GROUP TECHNOLOGIES LTD, CANADA
    • Correspondent: Not specified in available data.
    • Context: This appears to be the formal assignment of inventor rights to the original assignee, Bid Group Technologies Ltd.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 12163947
    2020 : Priority date
    2021 : Application filed by Bid Group Technologies Ltd
    2024 : Inventors assigned patent to Bid Group Technologies Ltd
         : Patent granted
    2025 : PTAB case PGR2025-00081 filed

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — Not present. The only recorded assignment is from the individual inventors to the original corporate assignee, Bid Group Technologies Ltd.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — Not present. Bid Group Technologies Ltd. (now Comact) is an operating company. A Post-Grant Review (PGR2025-00081) was filed by Unified Patents, indicating a defensive aggregation action against the patent, not by a known asserter.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — Unclear. The single assignment record does not specify a correspondent.
  4. Cascading transfers — Not present. There is only one recorded assignment.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — Not present. The assignment from inventors to assignee predates the patent grant and any known litigation by a significant margin. The PTAB case PGR2025-00081 was filed in late 2025, over a year after the assignment date.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — Not present. There is no indication that Bid Group Technologies Ltd. is in bankruptcy.
  7. Privateering — Not present. The patent remains with the operating company.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — Present. A Post-Grant Review (PGR2025-00081) has been filed against this patent by Unified Patents. Unified Patents is a known defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Defensive / non-asserting. While the patent is owned by an operating company, the filing of a Post-Grant Review (PGR2025-00081) by Unified Patents (a defensive aggregator) indicates an action taken to neutralize the patent. This suggests the patent is currently being challenged rather than asserted in an offensive manner by an NPE.

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