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Ocean Optics, Inc. — operating company, not an NPE
Ocean Optics, Inc. is a Florida-incorporated optical sensing company founded in 1989 by university researchers, originally based in Dunedin, Florida and now headquartered in Orlando, Florida. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Halma plc (LSE: HLMA), the UK safety, health and environmental technology group, which acquired 100% of Ocean Optics in 2004 for $25 million cash plus up to $25 million contingent on performance. Publicly reported figures are dated: roughly 120 employees and $25.2 million in 2003 revenue at the time of the Halma deal. Current headcount and revenue are not verified here.
The company invented and commercializes the miniature fiber-optic spectrometer. Its product lines include UV-VIS-NIR modular spectrometers (miniature and high-resolution), light sources, optical fibers and probes, sampling accessories, spectral software, photonics/subsystem integration, and custom OEM design and manufacturing. Applications span scientific research, medical/life sciences, semiconductors, food and safety testing, and industrial process control. Its business is organized as modular products, photonics systems and customized solutions. It was rebranded under the parent brand "Ocean Insight" in 2019 alongside International Light and Ocean Applied, with the Ocean Optics spectrometer brand restored in 2023.
Patent-litigation posture: Ocean Optics is a pure defendant (0 plaintiff cases, 1 defendant case) — an operating company targeted in litigation, not an assertion entity. Its single tracked appearance is in SiOnyx, LLC et al. v. Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. et al. (D. Mass., filed Oct. 1, 2015, Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV), a case venued in the District of Massachusetts rather than a plaintiff-friendly venue. Ocean Optics was a downstream peripheral defendant: the dispute centered on SiOnyx's "black silicon" laser-textured photodiode patents (U.S. 8,680,591; Harvard's 8,080,467), with Ocean Optics's Maya2000 Pro-NIR spectrometer alleged to infringe via a Hamamatsu S11510 sensor it purchased. Court records indicate Ocean Optics had explored sourcing sensors from SiOnyx before choosing Hamamatsu's part. The core litigation ran against Hamamatsu Photonics; a 2020 Federal Circuit decision affirmed a jury verdict for SiOnyx. No litigation against Ocean Optics beyond this case appears in the tracked data.
Sources: oceanoptics.com (About/History); Photonics.com (Halma acquisition coverage); PitchBook; U.S. District Court D. Mass. opinions and Fed. Cir. coverage of SiOnyx v. Hamamatsu.