Epix Inc.

EPIX, Inc. — commonly styled "EPIX" — is a privately held U.S. company founded in 1983 and headquartered at 381 Lexington Drive, Buffalo Grove, Illinois. It has no listed parent or affiliate, per its Rule 7.1 disclosure in the litigation below. Third-party business databases (D&B) estimate roughly 9 employees and annual revenue in the low single-digit millions of dollars; these are directory estimates, not audited figures, and EPIX does not publish financials.

Products / operations. EPIX designs and manufactures hardware and software for image acquisition and analysis. Its lines include frame grabbers, industrial and scientific cameras, camera kits, image-acquisition and processing software, and video-to-disk computer systems. Target applications include machine vision, medical imaging, drone/embedded image capture, and high-speed video analysis. The company also builds custom cameras, frame grabbers, and software for customer-specific applications and supplies programmer libraries for Windows and Linux. This is an operating company with real products, not a shell licensor.

Litigation posture. The tracked record shows a single case and EPIX appears only as a defendant (0 as plaintiff, 1 as defendant) — the classic profile of an operating company targeted by a patent assertion entity rather than an entity that asserts patents itself. The suit, Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. EPIX, Inc., No. 1:22-cv-00050 (D. Del.), was filed in the District of Delaware, a venue that accounts for roughly a quarter of Cedar Lane's filings; Cedar Lane's largest concentration is the Western District of Texas.

Notable case and context. Cedar Lane Technologies is a Canadian NPE incorporated in 2019 and, per Unified Patents and multiple analyses, one of the most prolific patent plaintiffs in the U.S., asserting patents acquired largely from Intellectual Ventures. Against EPIX it asserted U.S. Patent Nos. 6,972,790 and 8,537,242, both titled "Host interface for imaging arrays" — directly matching EPIX's imaging-hardware products. EPIX answered and filed counterclaims in March 2022; the parties stipulated to dismissal with prejudice on March 16, 2022, and the case closed. No merits ruling issued.