Delaware plaintiff NexGen Control Systems LLC has filed its first litigation, suing NXP Semiconductors in two separate Eastern District of Texas complaints, one targeting the provision of various automobile computing products, including the Peripheral Sensor Interface 5 (PSI5) system, FXOS8700CQ series devices, and the MC33789 Airbag System Basis Chip and related inertial sensors (5:23-cv-00022); and the other targeting the provision of various devices such as chipsets, controllers, drivers, and integrated circuits (5:23-cv-00025). All six patents now in suit share a development history, at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO), multiple assigned portfolios of which have spawned recent litigation.

MEL NavIP LLC, a Texas plaintiff managed by a familiar patent monetization figure, has filed its first litigation, suing Toyota (2:22-cv-00152) over the provision of infotainment systems in certain automobiles. Four patents are asserted in the new Eastern District of Texas complaint, all developed at Mitsubishi Electric. This portfolio is one of many, according to publicly available USPTO assignment records, to leave Mitsubishi Electric for NPE hands over the past several years.

Delaware NPE Comserve Solutions LLC has filed its first litigation, over a family of two patents generally related to upgrading a mainframe computer system’s operating system (OS). The plaintiff accuses Dell (VMware) (1:21-cv-02196) of infringement through the provision of the VMware vSphere server virtualization software, with features for installing OS updates on virtual machines at issue.

Earlier this month, IPValue Management, Inc. (d/b/a IPValue) announced that it had acquired over 1,200 patent assets from the display business unit of Mitsubishi Electric. While that transaction is not yet reflected in currently available USPTO records, the recordation of another recent Mitsubishi Electric divestment to an NPE has just cropped up among assignment data. Meanwhile, Arigna Technology Limited, a hedge fund-backed NPE under the Atlantic IP Services Limited umbrella, has taken one of its multiple campaigns asserting former Mitsubishi Electric patents to the International Trade Commission (ITC).