Assignment history

Inventors

Lawrence B. Lockwood is the sole named inventor of US Patent 7010508. The patent does not explicitly state his employer at the time of filing; the original assignee is listed as "Individual."

Original assignee

The original assignee on the issued patent is listed as "Individual" (Lawrence B. Lockwood). The patent describes a system for automated multimedia data processing, initially focused on loan applications and later extended to other financial transactions like income tax preparation and securities trading. Given the "Individual" assignee, it is unclear if Lawrence B. Lockwood himself shipped a product embodying the claims. His primary line of business, in this context, would be invention and potentially licensing of this technology. As of the current date, without further corporate records, the status of an "Individual" as an operating entity is not determinable.

Assignment timeline

A search of the USPTO Patent Assignment Search portal for patent number US7010508 on 2026-05-29 yielded no recorded assignments. This indicates that, according to USPTO records, the ownership of the patent remains with the original assignee, Lawrence B. Lockwood (Individual).

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 7010508
    1995 : Application filed by Lawrence B. Lockwood
    2006 : Patent issued to Lawrence B. Lockwood

NPE / troll-pattern signals

1. Shell-entity transfer — not present. There are no recorded assignments of this patent, so no transfer to a shell entity has been documented by the USPTO.
2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. As there are no recorded assignments, the patent has not been transferred to any publicly known NPE.
3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. Without any recorded assignments, there is no chain of transfers to analyze for repeat correspondents.
4. Cascading transfers — not present. No assignments are recorded to show cascading transfers.
5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. There are no recorded assignments of this patent. While the patent family has litigation, there is no evidence of a transfer specifically preceding litigation for this patent.
6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — unclear. Without a corporate entity as the assignee, bankruptcy proceedings of an individual inventor would not be publicly recorded in the same manner as a company, and there are no assignment records to indicate such a transfer.
7. Privateering — not present. There is no recorded transfer from an operating company to an NPE.
8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent has not been assigned to any known defensive aggregators.

Verdict

Insufficient data. As of 2026-05-29, the USPTO Patent Assignment Search shows no recorded assignments for US7010508. Therefore, there is no information on ownership changes or corporate entities in the chain to analyze for NPE patterns. The patent's ownership, according to official records, remains with the individual inventor, Lawrence B. Lockwood.

USPTO Patent Assignment Search for US7010508