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

James J. Fallon, employer not determinable from the patent document.

Original assignee

The original assignee on the issued patent US9116908B2 is Realtime Data LLC. The patent abstract and description indicate that Realtime Data LLC developed "systems and methods for accelerated data storage and retrieval utilizing lossless data compression and decompression." It is unclear from the patent document alone whether Realtime Data LLC shipped a product embodying these claims. Realtime Data LLC's primary line of business, as indicated by the patent, is data compression and decompression technologies. Its current operational status is not determinable solely from the patent document.

Assignment timeline

There are no recorded assignment documents for US Patent 9,116,908 found on the USPTO Patent Assignment Search website as of May 29, 2026. This indicates that the original assignee, Realtime Data LLC, likely still owns the patent.

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US 9116908
    2014 : Filed by Realtime Data LLC
    2015 : Issued to Realtime Data LLC

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 9,116,908 on the USPTO Patent Assignment Search website (https://assignmentcenter.uspto.gov/ or https://assignment.uspto.gov/patent/index.html). Therefore, there is no information to assess NPE/troll patterns beyond the initial filing and issuance to Realtime Data LLC.