Patent 8732085

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)

Asserters network →

Structured records extracted from the assignment-history narrative below. Each entity links to its full ownership-network profile.

  1. 2025-07-07 · recorded 2025-07-24 · reel 71822/827 · Assignment

    ENPULZ LLCPAYPULZ LLC

    transfer to new entity

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

  • James D. Bennett (Employer at time of filing: Not determinable from the patent text or Google Patents)

Unusual patterns: Not determinable from the provided information.

Original assignee

The original assignee, as listed on the issued patent US8732085B2, is Enpulz, L.L.C.

  • Shipped a product embodying the claims: Not determinable from the provided patent text.
  • Primary line of business: Not explicitly stated, but the patent describes a "Proxy card providing indirect funds access" which suggests a focus on financial transaction systems and services.
  • Current status: Google Patents lists "Paypulz LLC" as the "Current Assignee" and "Enpulz LLC" as the "Original Assignee". This suggests a change in ownership since the original issue.

Assignment timeline

To reconstruct the full assignment record, I will perform a search on the USPTO Assignment Center.

No recorded assignments for US8732085B2 were found on the USPTO Assignment Center when searching by patent number (as of May 22, 2026).

However, Google Patents indicates a "reassignment" on "2025-07-25 Assigned to ENPULZ, LLC" and another "reassignment" on "2025-07-24 Assigned to PAYPULZ LLC". Additionally, a Patentcloud search result from July 21, 2025, shows a transaction involving "ENPULZ LLC" as assignor and "PAYPULZ LLC" as assignee, recorded on 2025-07-24, with execution date 2025-07-07, and involving 8 patents, including those related to a proxy card for multiple monetary sources. This indicates a discrepancy with the direct USPTO Assignment Center search, which currently yields no results for this patent number. It is possible these recent assignments are pending full public availability in the USPTO Assignment Center's primary search interface, or there may be a delay in updating. Given the Patentcloud information, I will include this assignment in the timeline.

  • 2025-07-07 (executed) / recorded 2025-07-24 — Reel 71822/827 (from Patentcloud, not direct USPTO search)
    • Conveyance: Assignment
    • Assignor: ENPULZ LLC
    • Assignee: PAYPULZ LLC
    • Correspondent: Not specified in the Patentcloud snippet.
    • Context: Transfer to a new entity, Paypulz LLC.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 8732085
    2007 : Priority date 2007-08-06
    2012 : Filed by Enpulz LLC
    2014 : Granted to Enpulz LLC
    2025 : Assigned to Paypulz LLC

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — unclear. Enpulz LLC, the original assignee, and Paypulz LLC, the current assignee according to Google Patents and Patentcloud, do not immediately suggest shell entities by name alone. Without information about their products, physical addresses (beyond registered agent services), or corporate structure (e.g., single-member LLCs), it's unclear if they are operating companies or licensing-only entities.
  2. Known asserter in the chain — not present. Neither Enpulz LLC nor Paypulz LLC appear on common public NPE lists based on the provided information.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — unclear. The correspondent information for the 2025 assignment to Paypulz LLC is not available from the Patentcloud snippet, and the USPTO Assignment Center search currently yields no records for this patent directly.
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. Only one assignment from Enpulz LLC to Paypulz LLC is indicated in the provided information.
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — unclear. No litigation information is available for this patent, making it impossible to determine if the 2025 transfer occurred within 6 months of a first infringement suit.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. There is no information to suggest that Enpulz LLC filed for bankruptcy.
  7. Privateering — unclear. There is no information in the provided context to suggest privateering.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The chain does not terminate at a known defensive aggregator.

Verdict

Insufficient data
The USPTO Assignment Center search for US8732085B2 yielded no direct records as of today, 2026-05-22. While Google Patents and Patentcloud suggest a transfer from Enpulz LLC to Paypulz LLC in 2025, the lack of full USPTO assignment records (including reel/frame and correspondent details) prevents a confident assessment of NPE patterns. Without more detailed information on the nature of these entities (products, business model, address, attorney of record), it is impossible to determine if any NPE signals are present.

Verification: USPTO Assignment Center: https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/ (Search for patent number 8732085).

Generated 5/22/2026, 6:45:37 PM