BRINC (legal name BRINC Drones, Inc.) is a privately held, venture-backed US drone manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Press accounts differ on the founding year — several sources cite 2017 in Las Vegas, others 2019; the company moved to Seattle in 2021. Founder and CEO is Blake Resnick. It remains private with no public ticker or disclosed parent; investors include Index Ventures, Motorola Solutions, Sam Altman, and Dylan Field. Funding totals exceed a quarter billion dollars following a $125M round led by Motorola Solutions. Employee count and revenue are not publicly disclosed; the company said it "more than tripled revenue in 2025."
Products and operations. BRINC designs and manufactures US-made drones and supporting infrastructure for police, fire, and emergency-response agencies. Product lines include the Lemur 2 indoor tactical drone (glass breaker, two-way audio, LiDAR floor mapping), the Responder 911 "drone as first responder" aircraft with docking station, and the Guardian, positioned as a helicopter replacement. It also sells fleet-management, live-streaming, and repair/replace service plans, and holds exclusive integrations with Motorola Solutions. BRINC states its products are used by over 900 public safety agencies, including 20%+ of US SWAT teams.
Patent-litigation posture. BRINC is an operating company appearing solely as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — the classic profile of a product company targeted by an asserting entity, not an aggressor. Its single tracked matter is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Turing Video et al. in the District of Delaware.
Notable case and context. Cedar Lane Technologies is a Canadian-based patent assertion entity (NPE) widely tracked by Unified Patents, RPX, and Stanford's NPE database, holding a portfolio largely acquired from Intellectual Ventures and asserting imaging/computer-technology patents. The Delaware action is a multi-defendant NPE suit naming BRINC alongside other defendants; Cedar Lane's filings have historically clustered in the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas and the District of Delaware, with the large majority resolved by settlement. No merits determination involving BRINC is reflected in the tracked data.