Blue Ink Technology Inc.

Blue Ink Technology, Inc. ("Blue Ink Tech" / "BIT") is a privately held company headquartered in Huntington, West Virginia, at 1235 6th Avenue. The Better Business Bureau lists the business as started October 18, 2016; third-party data aggregators (LeadIQ, Prospeo) also give a 2016 founding, though one software-review listing (Technology Evaluation Centers) says 2013, and that discrepancy is unresolved. Ownership is private with no reported outside venture funding. President Chris Riegel is the named principal. Headcount is estimated at roughly 11–20 employees by LeadIQ and Prospeo; LeadIQ estimates revenue in the $10M–$25M band. These figures are third-party estimates, not company-reported, and should be treated as unverified.

Blue Ink Tech develops hardware and software for the commercial trucking and fleet-management market. Its offerings include BIT ELD (an FMCSA-registered electronic logging device for hours-of-service compliance), BIT Air Scale (onboard truck-weight monitoring), BIT Dashcam (AI-assisted video monitoring), and BIT IFTA (fuel-tax reporting), delivered through a combined hardware, mobile-app, and web-platform stack. The company also describes capabilities in embedded-systems and electronics design, wireless communications, and database/web portal development. It is an operating company with real products, not a patent-assertion vehicle.

Patent-litigation posture: Blue Ink appears once in the tracked data, as a defendant (1 case as defendant, 0 as plaintiff). It is therefore an operating company defending against an infringement suit rather than an NPE. The plaintiff, Fleet Connect Solutions LLC, is characterized as a patent assertion entity in Unified Patents' litigation database and has asserted the same family of communications/fleet-telematics patents against numerous fleet operators and telematics vendors.

Notable case: Fleet Connect Solutions LLC v. Blue Ink Technology, Inc., No. 3:25-cv-00497 (S.D. W. Va., filed Aug. 12–13, 2025), assigned to Judge Robert C. Chambers, asserting patent 7,260,155 under 35 U.S.C. § 271. The venue is the defendant's home district rather than a plaintiff-friendly forum such as the Eastern District of Texas. Docket entries show the defendant's answer deadline was extended repeatedly by stipulation, most recently from January 28 to February 27, 2026.