Garmin USA, Inc. is a Kansas corporation headquartered at 1200 East 151st Street, Olathe, Kansas, and one of several U.S. operating subsidiaries of Garmin Ltd., the Swiss-domiciled holding company (Mühlenstrasse, Schaffhausen) that is publicly traded on the NYSE under ticker GRMN. Garmin was founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Min Kao and remains an independent public company; the operational headquarters is Olathe. Recent filings put headcount at roughly 23,000 employees worldwide and annual revenue around $7.25 billion (2025), with a market capitalization in the tens of billions.
Products / operations: Garmin designs and manufactures GPS-enabled navigation, communication and sensor products, sold through five reporting segments: Fitness (wearables and cycling computers), Outdoor (handhelds, satellite communicators, dog-tracking), Aviation (integrated flight decks and avionics), Marine (chartplotters, radar, sonar) and Auto OEM (domain controllers for ADAS and infotainment). Manufacturing is vertically integrated across facilities in Kansas, Oregon and Taiwan. This is an operating company, not a patent licensor.
Litigation posture: Garmin USA appears in the tracked data as a defendant only (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case), consistent with a large hardware maker being targeted by outside patent holders rather than asserting its own portfolio. That single tracked appearance is at the U.S. International Trade Commission, not a district court.
Notable case: Technology Properties Limited LLC et al. v. Acer Inc. et al., filed July 24, 2012, ITC Investigation No. 337-TA-853 ("Certain Wireless Consumer Electronics Devices and Components Thereof"). Complainants Technology Properties Limited, Phoenix Digital Solutions and Patriot Scientific — entities associated with the MMP microprocessor-licensing portfolio — asserted U.S. Patent No. 5,809,336 against Garmin Ltd., Garmin International and Garmin USA alongside Acer, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, HTC, Huawei, Kyocera, LG, Nintendo, Novatel, Samsung, Sierra Wireless and ZTE. A parallel Northern District of California suit was stayed pending the ITC case, and the investigation was terminated in February 2014.