Company overview. Navico Inc. is the U.S. operating arm of Navico, a marine-electronics manufacturer. The U.S. entity is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma (founded in 2006 as the U.S. affiliate of the Navico group), while the parent, Navico Holding AS, is based in Egersund, Norway. Navico was formed in 2006 through the merger of Simrad Yachting and Lowrance Electronics, then owned by Altor Equity Partners and later co-owned with Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Since October 2021, Navico has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC), which paid $1.05 billion for it and now runs the business as "Navico Group," a Brunswick division (per Brunswick acquisition releases). At acquisition, Navico reported roughly 2,000 global employees and about $470 million in revenue for the trailing twelve months ended May 31, 2021; Tracxn lists Navico, Inc. itself at roughly 200 U.S. employees.
Products / operations. Navico designs, manufactures, and markets marine electronics and sensors for recreational and commercial boating, including fish-finding sonar and echo sounders, transducers, GPS chartplotters and multifunction displays, radar, autopilots, instruments, VHF radios, and digital cartography. Its brands are Lowrance, Simrad, B&G, and C-MAP (per Brunswick and Navico press materials). Manufacturing and R&D facilities are located in the U.S., Norway, the U.K., Mexico, and New Zealand.
Patent-litigation posture. Navico Inc. is an operating company, not a non-practicing entity; the database labels its sole tracked case (4:12-cv-00472) as involving an operating-company patent owner. The case data shows one appearance as plaintiff: Navico Inc. v. ArCzar LLC (filed Aug. 22, 2012, N.D. Okla., closed). The venue is Tulsa—Navico's U.S. home base—not a known plaintiff-friendly forum like the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable context. The tracked case is the mirror of a dispute initiated earlier (Dec. 2011) when ArCzar LLC/Inc., a patent-assertion entity, sued Navico in the same court over three patents covering fish-finding sonar and mapping GPS products—core Navico technology areas. In August 2012 the court dismissed ArCzar's indirect-infringement claims while allowing direct-infringement claims to proceed; Navico's own action against ArCzar followed days later. The litigation predates Brunswick's 2021 acquisition.
Sources: Brunswick acquisition and Navico Group press releases (brunswick.com), SEC filings, Tracxn, Justia/court records, Unified Patents, Wikipedia.