Digital Audio Encoding Systems, LLC (DAES) has filed a case asserting a single patent (7,490,037) against Apple (1:16-cv-00389). The ‘037 patent generally relates to encoding digital signals, and the NPE’s complaint targets Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming Server. DAES is one of 15 NPEs to have been formed in Texas between August 2015 and May 2016 with the same manager and agent, two of which have already filed suit and several others of which have recorded assignments of patent assets with the USPTO.