May 5, 2005: The Inventors Assigned the Application to Dominion

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The Google Patents record for U.S. Patent 8,195,505, drawing on USPTO assignment data, shows an application filed May 5, 2005, by Dominion Voting Systems Corp. The same day’s assignment line reads: assigned to DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS; assignors HOOVER, JAMES; IKONOMAKIS, NICK; OBRADOVIC, GORAN; POULOS, JOHN. The application claims priority to Canadian application 2,466,466, filed May 5, 2004. Those are the inventor and assignee names as the patent record prints them.

A later continuation family (see the 2017–2018 patents) lists the same four inventors. Some of those later documents give inventor city data as Toronto, CA, for Ikonomakis. That is what the patent listing says. This site does not invent citizenship, immigration status, or a U.S. office title from a city line.

An assignment is a property document. It is not a campaign. It is not a finding that any later election was tabulated incorrectly. The engineering title “Vice President of Engineering” is not on this 2005 assignment; that title is taken from the 2021 EAC agenda and the 2023 Colorado letter, not back-dated onto this filing.

Sources

U.S. Patent 8,195,505 B2. Application 11/121,997, filed May 5, 2005. Assignment May 5, 2005, to Dominion Voting Systems; assignors include IKONOMAKIS, NICK. patents.google.com/patent/US8195505B2

Canadian priority as stated on the U.S. patent: CA 2,466,466, filed May 5, 2004.

Opinion

The following is commentary by this site. It is not a finding of fact and not a legal conclusion.

Compiler take

Four names on the assignment. Dominion on the assignee line. That is how a vendor gets the patent. It is not a secret government commission. It is also not “just some contractor.” The paper puts him in the inventor group from the start.