According to USPTO records, an Irish NPE received over 480 US patents from United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) in June of this year. Irish corporate records reflect ties between the NPE assignee and the monetization firm IPValue Management (d/b/a IPValue), which has over the years acquired thousands of patent assets directly from operating companies—including more than 1,200 assets recently received from the display business unit of Mitsubishi Electric.