AI-CORE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, an Ascend Innovation Management, LLC plaintiff, has asserted seven former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents in an Eastern District of Texas complaint against Keyence (2:24-cv-00438). Targeted is the provision of vision systems and related products used for code reading, including the “(1) Keyence CV-X400 Series Intuitive Vision System; (2) Keyence SR-1000 series Autofocus 1D and 2D Code Reader; (3) Keyence SR-1000 Series Autofocus Reader & AutoID Network Navigator; (4) Keyence AutoID Network Navigator Software”.

In addition to the announced divestiture of a large tranche of VoIP patents from Avaya to Dominion Harbor Enterprises, LLC, March 2024 saw several other operating companies—including DXC Technology, Huawei, and SOLiD—unload patent assets. Several NPE enterprises also moved patents around, internally or to other NPEs, seemingly in preparation for new assertion campaigns.

RPX recently covered the new litigation filed by Byteweavr, LLC, an Ascend Innovation Management, LLC plaintiff, over former Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV) patents received from Ascend Innovation cousin AI-CORE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC in February. As reflected in assignment records recently made public, AI-CORE actually moved the bulk of the 145 patent assets that it received from IV last October to another monetization enterprise for apparent assertion; this immediate October 2023 divestiture is not the first to follow that path, from IV to Ascend to an unrelated (likely) plaintiff.