Nvidia Corporation
Nvidia Corporation is a publicly traded technology company founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company trades on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol NVDA. For its fiscal year ended January 25, 2026, Nvidia reported revenue of $215.9 billion and had approximately 42,000 employees. As of May 2026, its market capitalization exceeded $5 trillion, making it one of the world's most valuable companies.
Nvidia is an operating company that designs and sells graphics processing units (GPUs), application programming interfaces (APIs), and systems on a chip (SoCs) for a variety of markets. Its major product lines include GeForce GPUs for gaming, Nvidia RTX for professional visualization, and a suite of products and platforms for data centers and artificial intelligence (AI), such as the A and H series GPUs and DGX systems. The company also serves the automotive market with its NVIDIA DRIVE platform for autonomous vehicles and offers networking solutions through its Mellanox acquisition.
The company's patent litigation profile, based on the provided data, is that of an operating company defending its technology. It is listed as a defendant in one tracked case and has no cases as a plaintiff. This posture is typical for a large technology firm that becomes a target for patent assertion entities. The single tracked case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, a venue known for a high volume of patent litigation.
The notable tracked case is Speednic LLC v. Nvidia Corp et al., filed on April 16, 2026. The plaintiff, identified in news reports as a patent licensing firm, has accused Nvidia and its co-defendant, Dell Technologies Inc., of infringing on five patents related to computer processing technology used in their networking and AI products. The complaint alleges that Nvidia was aware of the patents, in part through its 2019 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies.