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

Srikant Jayaraman (Qualcomm Inc.)
Ivan Jesus Fernandez Corbaton (Qualcomm Inc.)
John E. Smee (Qualcomm Inc.)
Michael A. Howard (Qualcomm Inc.)

Original assignee

The original assignee, Qualcomm Inc., is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in San Diego, California. The company develops and designs technologies for global communications and computing, including next-generation mobile networks, smart devices, and semiconductors. Qualcomm holds essential patents for global mobile communication standards, including 5G, 4G, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA, and WCDMA. Qualcomm makes the chips and software that connect phones, cars, and other devices to wireless networks, with its best-known products being mobile processors and modem chips used in smartphones. They also earn revenue from licensing many of the core patents behind cellular technology. Qualcomm is currently operating.

Assignment timeline

There are no recorded assignments for US Patent 6968001 on the USPTO Patent Assignment Search database beyond the initial assignment to Qualcomm Incorporated at the time of grant, as indicated in the patent document itself.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 6968001
    2002 : Filed by Qualcomm Inc
    2005 : Issued to Qualcomm 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 6968001 beyond the original assignment to Qualcomm Inc. This lack of assignment records means there is no evidence to suggest any NPE activity.