Kodak Alaris Inc.

Kodak Alaris Inc. is a privately held imaging and information-capture company founded in 2013, when it was spun off from Eastman Kodak as part of the UK Kodak Pension Plan restructuring (KPP paid $325 million for Kodak's personalized-imaging and document-imaging businesses). It was owned by the UK Pension Protection Fund until August 2024, when Los Angeles–based private equity firm Kingswood Capital Management acquired it; Platinum Equity led a recapitalization in September 2025. Company press materials give Rochester, New York as headquarters, while Wikipedia lists Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire as the corporate base — the two sources differ, so both are noted. Employee counts also vary by source: roughly 4,700 globally at spin-off, about 390 locally in Rochester per the most recent Rochester Business Journal listing, and roughly 1,460 globally per Tracxn. No current revenue or market-cap figure is verifiable, as it is private.

Products / services. Kodak Alaris is an operating company with two units. Kodak Moments supplies film, photo paper, photochemicals, retail photo kiosks and event-imaging services. Alaris designs, manufactures and sells document scanners (workgroup through high-volume production models), capture and intelligent-document-processing software, micrographics/microfilm equipment, and multi-vendor repair, maintenance and professional services, sold through channel partners in 100+ countries. It licenses the Kodak brand from Eastman Kodak but is independent of that company.

Patent-litigation posture. Kodak Alaris appears in the tracked data as a defendant only (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — the profile of an operating company defending against assertions, not an NPE. The single tracked matter, Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Kodak Alaris Inc. (W.D.N.Y., No. 6:22-cv-06480), was filed by Cedar Lane, a Canadian-formed NPE that acquired patents from Intellectual Ventures and has filed hundreds of suits. Notably, this case sits in the Western District of New York, not a plaintiff-friendly venue such as the Eastern or Western District of Texas.

Context. The Cedar Lane complaint asserted three patents relating to image processing and JPEG compression; Jones Day represented Kodak Alaris and reported a negotiated resolution, with no merits ruling, before the company answered the complaint. The technology at issue tracks Kodak Alaris's core scanner/image-science business.