Company: IDCC
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001405495-25-000011
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Company: InterDigital, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-06
Form: 10-K
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InterDigital is using AI to drive both wireless and video standards towards the future, leveraging AI as a valuable tool to drive efficiency and new capabilities in wireless networks and in video compression and delivery systems. We are researching a variety of aspects of AI that can be applied to complex problems in video and wireless technologies. Those areas of research include: energy-efficient deep learning aimed at reducing the energy-intensive rollout of AI; design of novel video codecs based on deep learning techniques and optimized for different use cases (e.g., for machine consumption); and the integration of AI into current and next generation 3GPP wireless systems.

Patent Portfolio

As of December 31, 2024, our patent portfolio consisted of more than 33,000 patents and patent applications worldwide. The patents and applications comprising our portfolio relate predominantly to cellular wireless standards, including 3G, 4G and 5G technologies, other wireless standards, including 802.11 (Wi-Fi) technology, and a variety of video technologies and standards, such as HEVC and VVC. Our issued patents expire at differing times ranging from 2025 through 2044. We generally receive newly-issued patents on a weekly basis, which further extend the coverage of newly developed technologies and expiration dates of our patents.

Our Revenue Sources

Device-based Licensing Revenue

Companies making, importing, using or selling products compliant with the standards covered by our patent portfolio, including all manufacturers of smartphones, tablets and other devices, and many consumer electronics products, such as televisions, personal computers and other devices, require a license under our patents.  We have successfully entered into patent license agreements with many of the leading mobile communications and consumer electronics companies globally, including Amazon Technologies, Inc. ("Amazon"), Apple Inc. ("Apple"), Lenovo Group Limited ("Lenovo"), Google LLC ("Google"), LG Electronics, Inc. ("LG"), Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. ("OPPO"), Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ("Samsung"), Sony Corporation of America ("Sony"), and Xiaomi Corporation ("Xiaomi"), among others. 

Service-based Licensing Revenue Opportunities

We also believe that companies providing video streaming and certain other cloud services require a license under our patents, and we will seek to license our relevant assets to such companies. We launched our Video Services licensing program with an initial focus on the subscription-based video on demand (“SVOD”) and advertisement-based video on demand (“AVOD”) markets. Companies participating in these markets make, import, use or sell services making use of a number