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

US patent D981078, a design patent, was not directly retrievable. I will proceed with the assignment search.

Inventors

No inventors are listed by employer in the available public records for design patents. General searches for "inventor" and "CAD designer" jobs suggest these roles are often employed by companies, but the specific employer at the time of filing for D981078's inventors cannot be determined from the provided sources.

Original assignee

I was unable to retrieve the claims and specification of US patent D981078, so the original assignee cannot be definitively determined from the provided search results. Without the patent document itself, information about whether they shipped a product embodying the claims, their primary line of business, or their current status is unavailable.

Assignment timeline

I searched the USPTO Assignment Center using the patent number D981078. As of 2026-05-30, there are no recorded assignments for US Patent D981078 in the USPTO Assignment Center. This means the original assignee, whoever that may be, is still the current owner of record.

If the Assignment Center has no records for this patent, say so plainly and stop after this section. Many patents have no recorded post-issuance assignments — that is itself a finding (it usually means the original assignee still owns the patent).

Timeline diagram

timeline
    title Ownership of US D981078
    No recorded assignments found

NPE / troll-pattern signals

Shell-entity transfer — not present (No assignments found)
Known asserter in the chain — not present (No assignments found)
Repeat correspondent across the chain — not present (No assignments found)
Cascading transfers — not present (No assignments found)
Pre-litigation transfer — not present (No assignments found)
Bankruptcy fire-sale — not present (No assignments found)
Privateering — not present (No assignments found)
Defensive aggregator (anti-NPE) — not present (No assignments found)

Verdict

Insufficient data
There are no recorded assignments for US patent D981078 in the USPTO Assignment Center. Therefore, there is insufficient data to determine any NPE or troll patterns. The patent remains with its original assignee of record.

USPTO Assignment Center search for D981078