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.

Assignment history

Inventors

Chi-She Chen (Netlist Inc)
Jeffrey C. Solomon (Netlist Inc)
Scott H. Milton (Netlist Inc)
Jayesh Bhakta (Netlist Inc)

All inventors were employees of the original assignee, Netlist Inc., at the time of filing.

Original assignee

Netlist Inc. is the original assignee. Netlist designs and manufactures high-performance memory solutions for data center and cloud computing environments, including products that embody the claims of memory modules with on-module power management. The company is currently operating.

Assignment timeline

The USPTO Assignment Center search for US patent 12373366 found no recorded assignments as of 2026-05-26.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 12373366
    2007 : Priority date
    2022 : Application filed by Netlist Inc
    2025 : Patent granted to Netlist Inc

NPE / troll-pattern signals

Shell-entity transfer — not present
Known asserter in the chain — not present
Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present
Cascading transfers — not present
Pre-litigation transfer — not present
Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present
Privateering — not present
Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present

Verdict

Insufficient data. There are no recorded assignments for US patent 12373366 in the USPTO Assignment Center. Therefore, there is insufficient information to determine if any NPE/troll patterns are present. The patent appears to be held by the original assignee, Netlist Inc.

https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/patent/index.html