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Hisense Visual Technology Co., Ltd. (海信视像科技股份有限公司; SSE: 600060) is a Chinese display manufacturer headquartered at No. 218 Qianwangang Road, Qingdao, Shandong. It was incorporated in 1997, listed A-shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on 22 April 1997, and was renamed from Qingdao Hisense Electric Co., Ltd. to Hisense Visual Technology in December 2019. (Some market data profiles list a 1969 founding, reflecting Hisense brand origins.) It is a listed subsidiary of Hisense Group Holdings Co., Ltd., which holds roughly 30% of shares; Qingdao Huatong State-Owned Capital Operation (Group) Co., Ltd. also appears among defendants/parent entities in the case below. FactSet data reported by Barron's lists about 15,000 employees, FY2025 revenue of roughly RMB 57.7 billion, and a market capitalization around RMB 33–36 billion.
Operations. The company's core business is smart display terminals: LCD, Mini LED/RGB-Mini LED, laser, gaming and art televisions under the Hisense, Toshiba (via its 2017 acquisition of a 95% stake in Toshiba Visual Solutions) and Vidda brands. Secondary "new display" businesses include laser display and projectors, commercial display and interactive flat panels, cloud and AI services, display chips (TCON and SoC controllers, AI picture-quality chips), monitors, mobile smart screens, wearables (AI earbuds, smart glasses) and robots. Reported FY2025 revenue outside the main display segment was RMB 8.46 billion, up about 25%.
Litigation posture. In the tracked data, Hisense Visual Technology appears once and only as a defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — consistent with an operating company defending against patent assertion, not an NPE. The case was filed in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas before Judge Rodney Gilstrap.
Notable case. Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. v. Hisense Co., Ltd. et al., No. 2:22-cv-00225 (E.D. Tex., filed 24 June 2022), named Hisense Visual Technology among roughly a dozen Hisense entities. Flexiworld, an Oregon wireless-technology licensor listed as a non-practicing entity in Stanford's NPE Litigation Database, asserted several wireless-connectivity patents against Hisense smart TVs, soundbars and the RemoteNow app. The dispute was transferred to the Northern District of Georgia (No. 1:22-cv-04371), where Hisense's U.S. affiliate is headquartered; this profile does not address case outcomes or merits.