I'll verify the company's profile and the tracked case details.
Garmin Ltd. (commonly "Garmin") is a publicly traded electronics company incorporated in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, with principal U.S. operations headquartered in Olathe, Kansas. It was founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Min Kao and is listed on the NYSE under the ticker GRMN. The company reports roughly 20,000–23,000 employees worldwide. FY2025 revenue was approximately $7.25 billion with net income of about $1.66 billion, and its market capitalization has recently been cited in the $40–47 billion range. Garmin is an independent public company, not a subsidiary.
Garmin designs, manufactures, and distributes GPS/GNSS-enabled products across five segments: fitness, outdoor, aviation, marine, and auto OEM. Product lines include Forerunner and fēnix/Instinct adventure watches, Venu and vívoactive smartwatches, Edge cycling computers, Tacx indoor trainers, inReach satellite communicators, Approach golf devices, Garmin Connect software, aviation flight decks (G3000 PRIME, Autoland), marine chartplotters/radar/sonar, and automotive OEM domain controllers. It is vertically integrated, handling most design and manufacturing internally.
On litigation posture, the tracked data show 1 case, as defendant, in the U.S. International Trade Commission — Garmin is an operating company being attacked, not an NPE or a plaintiff asserting patents. There are no tracked plaintiff-side filings.
The single tracked matter is Furuno Electric Co., Ltd. et al. v. Garmin Ltd. et al., ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-900, filed September 23, 2013 and instituted November 8, 2013. Complainants Furuno Electric (Hyogo, Japan) and Furuno U.S.A. (Camas, WA) — a competing marine/aviation electronics maker — asserted four patents (U.S. 6,084,565; 6,424,292; 7,161,561; 7,768,447) covering navigation, radar, and map-display systems, and requested a limited exclusion order and cease-and-desist orders. Garmin entities were named alongside Navico and Raymarine respondents; Furuno filed a parallel district court action in the District of Oregon. The patents relate to the same marine/navigation display technology at issue across Garmin's marine and automotive lines. No merits determination is characterized here.