Patent 12268265

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. 2019-07-16 · recorded 2025-01-02 · reel 069721/0655 · Assignment of Assignors Interest

    DESHPANDE, SHANTANU; WONG, KINGSTONKLEIN TOOLS, INC., ILLINOIS

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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

  • Shantanu Deshpande (Employer: Klein Tools Inc. at time of application/assignment to original assignee)
  • Kingston Wong (Employer: Klein Tools Inc. at time of application/assignment to original assignee)

No unusual patterns are determinable; the assignment from the inventors to Klein Tools Inc. is standard practice for employee inventions.

Original assignee

The original assignee named on the issued patent is Klein Tools Inc.. Klein Tools Inc. is a well-known manufacturer of hand tools and other products for electrical and construction trades, implying they ship products embodying the claims (safety helmets). The company is currently operating.

Assignment timeline

  • 2019-07-16 (executed) / recorded 2025-01-02 — Reel 069721/0655
    • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST
    • Assignor: DESHPANDE, SHANTANU; WONG, KINGSTON
    • Assignee: KLEIN TOOLS, INC., ILLINOIS
    • Correspondent: Not explicitly listed in the Google Patents legal event, but the event indicates "ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS)".
    • Context: Internal transfer of invention rights from individual inventors to their employer.

No other assignment records for US patent 12268265 were found in the provided Google Patents legal events data, which typically aggregates USPTO assignment records.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 12268265
    2018 : Priority date
    2019 : Inventors assign to Klein Tools Inc
    2022 : Application filed
    2025 : Issued to Klein Tools Inc

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. The assignment is from the individual inventors to Klein Tools Inc., an operating company.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Klein Tools Inc. is an operating company, not a known NPE.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — unclear. The correspondent for the inventor-to-assignee transfer is not explicitly provided in the accessible data. Even if it were, a single transfer to an operating company wouldn't necessarily indicate a repeat correspondent pattern for NPE activity.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment from inventors to the operating company is recorded.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. No litigation is indicated, and the assignment occurred well before the patent was granted.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. Klein Tools Inc. is an active, operating company.
  7. Privateering — not present. No evidence suggests a privateering arrangement.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent is currently owned by an operating company.

Verdict

Insufficient data. Only one assignment from the inventors to the original operating assignee (Klein Tools Inc.) is recorded. This is a standard corporate practice for employee inventions and shows no indicators of NPE activity. Without additional transfers or litigation filings, there is no basis to suggest NPE involvement.

Verification: USPTO Assignment Center search for US12268265.

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