Bell Northern Research, LLC (BNR) has filed two new cases so far in June, a first, filed in the Western District of Texas, accusing NXP Semiconductors (1:23-cv-00633) of infringing three wireless communications patents through the provision of certain systems-on-chip (SoCs) and related devices, including the NXP 88W8997 2.4/5 GHz Dual-Band 2x2 Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) + Bluetooth 5.3 SoC. The same three patents are asserted in a second complaint, this one filed in the Central District of California against chipmakers MediaTek and Qualcomm, together with alleged customers D-Link, Linksys, NETGEAR, TP-Link, and ZyXel (8:23-cv-01065). Targeted there are certain MediaTek or Qualcomm “chips and/or chipsets that are used to communicate over wireless networks using the Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, 802.11ax, 802.11ac, and/or 802.11n standards”, with the remaining defendants tagged over “downstream products” (e.g., access points, mesh nodes, range extenders, routers, and wireless communication dongles and cards) that incorporate the accused MediaTek and Qualcomm products.