Patent 12254103

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. 2022-04-04 · recorded 2022-04-12 · reel 059566/0702 · Assignment

    BAYLE, CAROLE; MOURAD, FAHERTHALES DIS FRANCE SAS

    Correspondent: · Thales North America

    Transfer of inventor's rights to the corporate 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

Original assignee

The original assignee on the issued patent is Thales DIS France SAS. Thales DIS France SAS is a large industrial company based in France, specializing in advanced technologies across defense, aeronautics, space, and digital identity and security. They develop and provide solutions, services, and products, including those related to digital identity and security. Thales DIS France SAS is an operating company that ships products embodying the claims, particularly within their digital identity and security domain. The company is currently operating.

Assignment timeline

  • 2022-04-04 (executed) / recorded 2022-04-12 — Reel 059566/0702
    • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST
    • Assignor: BAYLE, CAROLE; MOURAD, FAHER
    • Assignee: THALES DIS FRANCE SAS
    • Correspondent: THALES NORTH AMERICA, INC., 2200 Corporate Drive, STE 200, Dulles, VA 20166, UNITED STATES.
    • Context: Transfer of inventor's rights to the corporate assignee.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 12254103
    2020 : Filed by Thales DIS France SAS
    2022 : Inventors assigned rights to Thales DIS France SAS
    2025 : Issued

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The sole recorded assignment is from the individual inventors to Thales DIS France SAS, which is a known operating company.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Thales DIS France SAS is an operating company, not a known NPE.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. There is only one assignment recorded, and thus no recurrence of a correspondent within the chain.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment is recorded.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. There is no recorded litigation, and the assignment is from the inventors to the original assignee, occurring well before the patent's issue date.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. Thales DIS France SAS is an active, operating company.
  7. Privateering — not present. The patent is currently held by the operating company.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The current assignee is an operating company, not a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Operating-company assertion. The patent is currently assigned to Thales DIS France SAS, an operating company with products in the digital identity and security domain that would embody the claims. The only recorded assignment is from the inventors to this operating company. This indicates the patent is held by an entity that develops and sells products in the relevant technology space.

For verification, search U.S. Patent No. 12,254,103 on the USPTO Patent Assignment Search.

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