After more than a yearlong litigation hiatus, ImberaTek, LLC, an Ideahub, Inc. subsidiary, has sued Apple (1:24-cv-00129) in the Western District of Texas over nine patents described by the plaintiff as generally related to “techniques to integrate semiconductors in electronic module”. Targeted is the provision of Apple’s various A- and M-series systems-on-chip (SoCs), as well as “cellular devices, tablets, digital media players/video game consoles, laptops, computers, and displays” that incorporate those SoCs. The sole prior defendant in this campaign is Samsung.

ImberaTek, LLC, an Ideahub, Inc. subsidiary, has sued over patents that it acquired from GE Embedded Electronics (f/k/a Imbera Electronics) in early 2020. The defendant is Samsung (2:22-cv-00233), accused in an Eastern District of Texas complaint of infringing six of those patents through the provision of a variety of smartphones, tablets, and virtual reality headsets alleged to “include infringing processors and/or other semiconductor components, such as, for example, [Samsung’s] Exynos 7420 and Exynos 9810 system-on-chips (“SoC”), as well as power management integrated circuits embedding [Qualcomm’s] PMX55, PM8150C, PM8250, PM8350, and PM8350C”.

GE Embedded Electronics (f/k/a Imbera Electronics), a company that GE acquired in 2013, has offloaded the bulk of its US patent portfolio, in two recorded assignments of roughly 25 US assets each. At the time of its acquisition, GE Embedded Electronics was described as “a pioneering Finnish company that has spent over 10 years developing advanced embedded electronics packaging technology and manufacturing solutions”. The 50 plus patent assets recently transferred generally relate to those fields of technology, with connections of the recipient suggesting that future assertion is not out of the question.