VB Assets, LLC has filed an Eastern District of Texas complaint against Samsung (2:24-cv-00828), targeting the provision of the Bixby 2.0 voice assistant and supporting devices such as earbuds, home appliances, smartphones, smartwatches, tablets, TVs, and more. The plaintiff previously asserted four of the six former VoiceBox patents appearing in the new complaint against Amazon, two of which were the partial subject of a District of Delaware verdict in VB Assets favor last November. A couple of weeks ago, District Judge Maryellen Noreika ruled on the parties’ posttrial motions in that case, trimming the jury’s running royalty award down from $46.7M to just over $40M based on a judgment as a matter of law that no reasonable jury could have found one of the four tried claims infringed. Characterizing itself as “ill-equipped to assess whether the jury’s awarded royalty rate would be an appropriate rate for the ongoing royalty”, the court asked for supplemental briefing concerning that calculation; VB Assets just made its submission.