InterDigital
{{Short description|American technology company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = InterDigital, Inc.
| logo = File:Interdigital_logo.svg
| type = Public
| traded_as = {{Unbulleted list |{{NASDAQ|IDCC}}|S&P 600 component}}
| foundation = {{start date and age|1972}}, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| location = Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
| key_people = {{plainlist|
| industry = Wireless, Video, Patent monetization
| products = Research and development
| revenue = {{gain}} {{US$|869 million|link=yes}} (2024)
| operating_income = {{increase}} US$440 million (2024)
| net_income = {{increase}} US$359 million (2024)
| assets = {{increase}} US$1.84 billion (2024)
| equity = {{increase}} US$857 million (2024)
| num_employees = 430 (2024)
| website = {{URL|https://www.interdigital.com|interdigital.com}}
}}
InterDigital, Inc. is an American technology research and development company that provides wireless and video technologies for mobile devices, networks, and services worldwide. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on the Nasdaq and is included in the S&P 600 index.
InterDigital had 2020 revenue of $359 million and a portfolio of about 32,000 U.S. and foreign issued patents and patent applications.
Corporate history
- 1972: Company is incorporated as International Mobile Machines Corporation.{{Cite web|url=http://ir.interdigital.com/file/Index?KeyFile=391325057|title=Press Release {{!}} InterDigital.com|website=ir.interdigital.com|access-date=2019-01-08|archive-date=2019-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109062555/http://ir.interdigital.com/file/Index?KeyFile=391325057|url-status=dead}}
- 1981: Company goes public.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
- 1992: Name is changed to InterDigital Communications Corp.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
- 1998: Alliance with Nokia is established.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
- 2003: Patent infringement suit is settled with Ericsson.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
- 2012: Moved corporate headquarters from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania to Wilmington, Delaware.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
- 2014: Samsung and InterDigital sign a patent license agreement.{{Cite web | url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/03/samsung-interdigital-patents/ | title=Samsung Inks $500M Wireless Patent Deal with InterDigital| date=3 June 2014}}
- 2016: InterDigital signs license agreements with Apple and Huawei.{{cite web| url = http://seekingalpha.com/news/3230828-interdigital-announces-patent-license-agreement-apple| title = InterDigital announces patent license agreement with Apple (NASDAQ:IDCC) {{!}} Seeking Alpha| date = 15 December 2016}}
- 2016: InterDigital acquires sensor processing technology pioneer Hillcrest Labs.{{cite web| url = http://hillcrestlabs.com/interdigital-announces-acquisition-of-sensor-processing-technology-pioneer-hillcrest-labs/| title = Sensor Fusion {{!}} CEVA}}
- 2017: LG and InterDigital sign a patent license agreement.{{Cite web|url=http://ir.interdigital.com/file/Index?KeyFile=391325057|title=InterDigital and LG Electronics, Inc. Sign Multi-Year Patent License Agreement|website=InterDigital|access-date=2019-01-08|archive-date=2019-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109062555/http://ir.interdigital.com/file/Index?KeyFile=391325057|url-status=dead}}
- 2018: InterDigital acquires patent licensing business of Technicolor.{{Cite web|url=http://ir.interdigital.com/file/Index?KeyFile=391325057|title=InterDigital Completes Acquisition of Technicolor Patent Licensing Business|website=InterDigital Website|access-date=2019-01-08|archive-date=2019-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109062555/http://ir.interdigital.com/file/Index?KeyFile=391325057|url-status=dead}}
- 2019: Technicolor announces it has received a binding offer for its Research & Innovation Activity from InterDigital.{{Cite web|url=https://www.technicolor.com/news/technicolor-has-received-binding-offer-its-research-innovation-activity-interdigital|title=Technicolor Has Received a Binding Offer for its Research & Innovation Activity From InterDigital|date=11 February 2019|website=www.technicolor.com|access-date=2 April 2019}}
- 2021: Xiaomi and InterDigital sign a patent license agreement.{{Cite web|date=2021-08-06|title=InterDigital signs licensing agreement with Xiaomi|url=https://www.juve-patent.com/news-and-stories/people-and-business/interdigital-and-xiaomi-sign-licensing-agreement/|access-date=2021-10-22|website=JUVE Patent}}
Research areas
The company is primarily focused on advanced wireless (5G), video, and Internet of Things (IoT) research:
- Xhaul: InterDigital is part of a consortium of companies and academics working together to develop an adaptive, sharable, cost-efficient solution integrating the fronthaul and backhaul segments of the future 5G transport network.{{Cite web | url=http://5g-ppp.eu/5g-xhaul/ | title=5G-XHaul ‹ 5G-PPP}}
- Horizon 2020 POINT: POINT (iP Over IcN– the betTer IP) aims to develop technology, innovations and business value chains for commercially viable IP-over-ICN deployment. The POINT project consists of nine partners (both academic and industrial) from five EU countries.{{Cite web |url=https://www.point-h2020.eu/ |title=The H2020 POINT Project |access-date=2016-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213121205/https://www.point-h2020.eu/ |archive-date=2019-12-13 |url-status=dead }}
- RIFE: Project RIFE uses advanced networking technology to address the challenge of providing affordable internet access by increasing the efficiency of the underlying transport networks and the involved architectures and protocols. The project consortium includes 7 partners that include Martel Consulting, Aalto University, University of Cambridge, Thales, Avanti, guifi.net and InterDigital Europe.{{Cite web | url=https://rife-project.eu/ | title=Homepage}}
- 5G Socioeconomic Study: InterDigital along with Tech4i2, Trinity College Dublin and Real Wireless has been commissioned to develop a socio-economic data study launched by the European Commission.{{cite web| url = https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news/identification-and-quantification-key-socio-economic-data-strategic-planning-5g-introduction| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160809152340/https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/news/identification-and-quantification-key-socio-economic-data-strategic-planning-5g-introduction| archive-date = 2016-08-09| title = Identification and quantification of key socio-economic data for the Strategic Planning of 5G introduction in Europe {{!}} Digital Single Market}}
- oneM2M: In 2015, InterDigital Labs participated in joint testing to verify multi-vendor interoperability of the oneM2M standard with other participants that include Cisco, HERIT, Huawei, KETI, Ricoh and Qualcomm.{{Cite web |url=http://ir.interdigital.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=931424 |title=InterDigital to Demonstrate M2M Developments at First ETSI and TTA Sponsored oneM2M Interop Event (NASDAQ:IDCC) |access-date=2016-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151028154821/http://ir.interdigital.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=931424 |archive-date=2015-10-28 |url-status=dead }}
- FLAME: Flame is a 5G testbed for urban scale trials of open media Internet services in European cities, including Bristol, UK and Barcelona, Spain. The FLAME project is led by a consortium of twelve partners including University of Southampton, InterDigital Europe, Atos Spain, i2CAT, University of Bristol, Nextworks, Martel Innovate, VRT, The Walt Disney Company, ETH Zurich, Institut Municipal d'Informatica de Barcelona, and Bristol is Open.
- 5G-CORAL: 5G-CORAL is an H2020 European Union/Taiwan collaborative project that is exploring service-based design in a deep and volatile edge-fog virtualized infrastructure and contributing to standards development that impacts radio access network (RAN) terminal and infrastructure, by creating a unique opportunity for access convergence. 5G-CORAL is coordinated by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), and includes ADLINK, AZCOM, Ericsson, InterDigital, ITRI, RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden), Telcaria, Telecom Italia, and National Chiao Tung University (NCTU).{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
Patent holdings
According to the company, since 2012 it has been listed by third-party analysts within the top 3 patent holders for cellular wireless more often than any other company, with percentages ranging from 8–10% of patents deemed likely to be standards-essential.http://ir.interdigital.com/Cache/1001245936.PDF?O=PDF&T=&Y=&D=&FID=1001245936&iid=4103938 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}} According to research by Wiseharbor Research, a technology IP research firm, InterDigital Technology Corp. and InterDigital Patent Holdings held 282 declared essential LTE patents and 155 declared essential LTE patents respectively. The report also shows other mobile SEP owner-licensors such as Ericsson (146 declared essential LTE patents), Qualcomm (350 declared essential LTE patents), Nokia (142 declared essential LTE patents) and Huawei (182 declared essential LTE patents).http://www.wiseharbor.com/pdfs/Mallinson%20on%20cumulative%20mobile%20SEP%20royalties%20for%20IP%20Finance%202015Aug19.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}
Major licensees
In June 2014 Samsung and InterDigital entered into a patent license agreement that "resolves all pending litigation between the two companies".{{cite news| url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/interdigital-enters-patent-license-agreement-with-samsung-1401794394| title = InterDigital Enters Patent License Agreement With Samsung - WSJ| newspaper = Wall Street Journal| date = 3 June 2014| last1 = McCarthy| first1 = Erin}} The agreement is cited at being worth just under $500million.{{Cite web | url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/03/samsung-interdigital-patents/ | title=Samsung Inks $500M Wireless Patent Deal with InterDigital| date=3 June 2014}}
William J. Merritt, president and CEO of InterDigital said in a statement: "We are very happy to have resolved the licensing dispute with Samsung on mutually agreeable terms. This agreement with Samsung shows how our longstanding patent licensing framework and process can lead to effective, productive discussions and eventual resolution on fair and reasonable terms".{{cite web| url = http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2348207/samsung-and-interdigital-reach-patent-accord| title = Computing - The UK's leading source for the analysis of business technology}}
In September 2016, InterDigital signed a license agreement with Huawei, and the companies agreed to "a framework for discussions regarding joint research and development efforts."{{cite press release| url = https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2016/09/06/869694/0/en/InterDigital-and-Huawei-Sign-Multi-Year-Patent-License-Agreement-for-3G-and-4G-Terminal-Units.html| title = InterDigital and Huawei Sign Multi-Year Patent License| date = 6 September 2016}}
In December 2016, Apple and InterDigital entered into a multi-year license agreement.{{cite web| url = http://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/InterDigital+(IDCC)+Enters+Patent+License+Agreement+With+Apple+(AAPL)/12345712.html| title = InterDigital (IDCC) Enters Patent License Agreement With Apple (AAPL)}}
Chief executive officer
Lawrence (Liren) Chen was appointed president and chief executive officer on April 5, 2021.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
Locations
InterDigital is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, and has 13 offices (including 9 R&D facilities) in 8 countries around the world.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.interdigital.com Official website]
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Category:Companies based in Wilmington, Delaware
Category:Telecommunications companies established in 1972
Category:Telecommunications companies of the United States