InterDigital

InterDigital, Inc. is an American technology research and development company that provides wireless and video technologies for mobile devices, networks, and services worldwide. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on the Nasdaq and is included in the S&P 600 index.

InterDigital had 2020 revenue of $359 million and a portfolio of about 32,000 U.S. and foreign issued patents and patent applications.

Corporate history

Key Dates:[2]

1972: Company is incorporated as International Mobile Machines Corporation.[3]
1981: Company goes public.
1992: Name is changed to InterDigital Communications Corp.
1998: Alliance with Nokia is established.
2003: Patent infringement suit is settled with Ericsson.
2012: Moved corporate headquarters from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania to Wilmington, Delaware.

Research areas

The company is primarily focused on advanced wireless (5G), video, and Internet of Things (IoT) research:

Xhaul: InterDigital is part of a consortium of companies and academics working together to develop an adaptive, sharable, cost-efficient solution integrating the fronthaul and backhaul segments of the future 5G transport network.[11]

Horizon 2020 POINT: POINT (iP Over IcN– the betTer IP) aims to develop technology, innovations and business value chains for commercially viable IP-over-ICN deployment. The POINT project consists of nine partners (both academic and industrial) from five EU countries.[12]

RIFE: Project RIFE uses advanced networking technology to address the challenge of providing affordable internet access by increasing the efficiency of the underlying transport networks and the involved architectures and protocols. The project consortium includes 7 partners that include Martel Consulting, Aalto University, University of Cambridge, Thales, Avanti, guifi.net and InterDigital Europe.[13]

5G Socioeconomic Study: InterDigital along with Tech4i2, Trinity College Dublin and Real Wireless has been commissioned to develop a socio-economic data study launched by the European Commission.[14]

oneM2M: In 2015, InterDigital Labs participated in joint testing to verify multi-vendor interoperability of the oneM2M standard with other participants that include Cisco, HERIT, Huawei, KETI, Ricoh and Qualcomm.[15]

FLAME: Flame is a 5G testbed for urban scale trials of open media Internet services in European cities, including Bristol, UK and Barcelona, Spain. The FLAME project is led by a consortium of twelve partners including University of Southampton, InterDigital Europe, Atos Spain, i2CAT, University of Bristol, Nextworks, Martel Innovate, VRT, The Walt Disney Company, ETH Zurich, Institut Municipal d'Informatica de Barcelona, and Bristol is Open.

5G-CORAL: 5G-CORAL is an H2020 European Union/Taiwan collaborative project that is exploring service-based design in a deep and volatile edge-fog virtualized infrastructure and contributing to standards development that impacts radio access network (RAN) terminal and infrastructure, by creating a unique opportunity for access convergence. 5G-CORAL is coordinated by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), and includes ADLINK, AZCOM, Ericsson, InterDigital, ITRI, RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden), Telcaria, Telecom Italia, and National Chiao Tung University (NCTU).

type	Public
traded as	nasdaq: IDCC S&P 400 component
founded	1972, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
hq location	Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
key people	Doug Hutcheson (chairman) Liren Chen (president & CEO) Richard Brezski (CFO)
industry	Wireless, Video, Patent monetization
products	Research and development
revenue	US$869 million (2024)
operating income	US$440 million (2024)
net income	US$359 million (2024)
assets	US$1.84 billion (2024)
equity	US$857 million (2024)
num employees	430 (2024)
website	interdigital.com
footnotes	‡R1R‡

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