Patent 8934922

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 (2)

Asserters network →

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

  1. 2015-06-03 · recorded 2015-06-12 · reel 034637/0747 · ASSIGNMENT

    PEREZ LAFUENTE, CARLOS ALBERTOAFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES, S.L.

    Correspondent: · BROMBERG & SUNSTEIN

    Inventor assigned rights to the original assignee.

  2. 2023-06-21 · recorded 2023-07-17 · reel 059438/0607 · ASSIGNMENT

    AFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES, S.L.AVANT LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC

    Correspondent: · ROTHWELL, FIGG, ERNST & MANBECK

    transfer-to-asserter

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

  • Carlos A. Perez Lafuente (likely associated with AFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES SL)

Original assignee

AFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES SL is a Spanish consulting firm specializing in innovation, R&D, and technology. No direct evidence suggests they shipped a product embodying the claims of US8934922 as a core business offering. The company appears to be currently operating.

Assignment timeline

  • 2015-06-03 (executed) / recorded 2015-06-12 — Reel 034637/0747
    • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT
    • Assignor: PEREZ LAFUENTE, CARLOS ALBERTO
    • Assignee: AFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES, S.L.
    • Correspondent: BROMBERG & SUNSTEIN LLP, 125 SUMMER STREET, BOSTON, MA 02110
    • Context: Inventor assigned rights to the original assignee.
  • 2023-06-21 (executed) / recorded 2023-07-17 — Reel 059438/0607
    • Conveyance: ASSIGNMENT
    • Assignor: AFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES, S.L.
    • Assignee: AVANT LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    • Correspondent: ROTHWELL, FIGG, ERNST & MANBECK, P.C., 607 14TH STREET, NW, SUITE 800, WASHINGTON, DC 20005
    • Context: Transfer of patent from original consulting company to a known patent assertion entity.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 8934922
    2014 : Application filed
    2015 : Patent granted
         : Inventor to AFIRMA SL
    2023 : AFIRMA SL to Avant LLC
    2024 : First litigation filed

NPE / troll-pattern signals

  1. Shell-entity transfer — present. The transfer of the patent from AFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES, S.L., a technology consulting firm, to AVANT LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC, an entity that does not appear to ship products, indicates a transfer to a licensing-only entity.
    • Supporting evidence: Reel 059438/0607 (2023-06-21 executed / 2023-07-17 recorded).
  2. Known asserter in the chain — present. AVANT LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC is identified as a patent asserter by Unified Patents.
    • Supporting evidence: Reel 059438/0607 (2023-06-21 executed / 2023-07-17 recorded), Assignee: AVANT LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC.
  3. Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present. The correspondents for the two assignments in the chain are different: BROMBERG & SUNSTEIN LLP (Reel 034637/0747) and ROTHWELL, FIGG, ERNST & MANBECK, P.C. (Reel 059438/0607).
  4. Cascading transfers — not present. There are only two recorded assignments, with an eight-year gap between the inventor assignment (2015) and the subsequent transfer to Avant Location Technologies LLC (2023).
  5. Pre-litigation transfer — not present. The assignment to AVANT LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC was recorded on 2023-07-17 (Reel 059438/0607). The earliest litigation cases identified on Google Patents for this patent were filed in 2024, which is more than six months after the assignment.
  6. Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present. No public records indicate that AFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES, S.L. underwent bankruptcy proceedings.
  7. Privateering — unclear. While the patent was transferred from an operating/consulting company to a known NPE, there is no explicit public evidence to confirm that AVANT LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC is asserting on behalf of AFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES, S.L. against specific competitors.
  8. Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present. The patent is currently assigned to AVANT LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC, which is a known patent asserter, not a defensive aggregator.

Verdict

NPE — high confidence. The patent was transferred from AFIRMA CONSULTING & TECHNOLOGIES, S.L., a technology consulting firm, to AVANT LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC, an entity identified as a patent asserter by Unified Patents. This transfer (Reel 059438/0607, recorded 2023-07-17) strongly indicates a shell-entity transfer to a known asserter, fulfilling two strong NPE pattern signals.

For verification, see the USPTO Patent Assignment Search results for US8934922.

https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/[ptab](/ptab)/case/IPR2025-01260
https://afirma.es/

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