Openeye US

Company overview. OpenEye (docketed as Openeye US Inc.) is a US operating company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Liberty Lake, Washington (1730 N. Madson St.). It is not publicly traded on its own; since October 21, 2019 it has operated as a subsidiary of Alarm.com Holdings (Nasdaq: ALRM), which acquired an 85% stake for total consideration of roughly $67 million, with the founders' minority stake subject to put/call rights beginning in Q1 2023. Third-party data providers put headcount at roughly 300 (bands of 201–500); OpenEye does not break out revenue publicly.

Products / services. OpenEye supplies cloud-managed video surveillance — video-surveillance-as-a-service (VSaaS) — for commercial and enterprise customers such as retail chains, banks, schools and hospitals. Its core offering is the OpenEye Web Services (OWS) cloud platform for video management, remote viewing and system health monitoring, paired with its own network video recorders, IP/cloud cameras and AI-based analytics (including recently released AI Visual Search and AI Visual Check). It also markets business-intelligence and loss-prevention tools and cloud-to-cloud integrations with access-control providers such as Brivo and Alarm.com ecosystem partners. In April 2023 it acquired video-analytics vendor Vintra.

Patent-litigation posture. OpenEye is an operating company defending against NPE assertion, not an asserter: it has zero plaintiff cases and one defendant case in the tracked data. The single tracked suit is Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Openeye US Inc., No. 1:22-cv-01505, filed in the District of Delaware. Cedar Lane is a Canadian patent-assertion entity incorporated in 2019 that acquired patents originally held by Intellectual Ventures entities and has filed hundreds of suits, chiefly in the Western District of Texas and, in 2022, increasingly in Delaware. OpenEye's case is therefore a downstream defendant matter within a broad, image-processing-focused campaign, not company-initiated litigation.

Context. The patents asserted in the Cedar Lane campaign include U.S. 6,473,527, 6,972,790 and 8,537,242, covering analog/digital conversion and JPEG compression interfacing and imaging-array host interfaces — technologies Cedar Lane has asserted against a wide range of camera, imaging and video vendors. Press coverage lists Openeye US among defendants in Cedar Lane's 2022 filings alongside Xerox, Hertz, Avis and Sixt; the tracked docket places the OpenEye action in D. Del. No merits findings are recorded here.