Reolink Digital Technology

Company overview. Reolink Digital Technology (Chinese: 深圳市睿联数字技术有限公司, Shenzhen Reolink Digital Technology Co., Ltd.) is the operating affiliate of Shenzhen-based Reolink Technology (深圳市睿联技术股份有限公司), founded in January 2009 by former Huawei HiSilicon/TCL/TI engineers Liu Xiaoyu and Wang Aijun. It is privately held; Liu and Wang each hold roughly 27% and act as co-controlling shareholders. The company filed for a Shenzhen ChiNext IPO in 2022 (approved 2023, ~RMB 1.12B raise planned) but withdrew its registration in November 2024. Its last disclosed financials (prospectus, registration draft) reported revenue of RMB 1.37B (2021), RMB 1.65B (2022) and RMB 2.08B (2023), net profit of RMB 436M, and 565 employees as of mid-2023.

Products / operations. Reolink designs, markets and sells home video-surveillance hardware and companion software under its own "Reolink" brand — a genuine operating company, not a licensor shell. Product lines include Wi-Fi, PoE and 4G LTE battery cameras, dual-lens and floodlight cameras, video doorbells, NVRs/recording accessories, and personal cloud storage services, sold mainly via Amazon, eBay, AliExpress and its own site (>98% of revenue from overseas, overwhelmingly US/Europe). Manufacturing is largely outsourced to contract manufacturers.

Patent-litigation posture. The tracked data shows one case, as defendant, zero as plaintiff — consistent with an operating company being targeted rather than asserting. The single suit was filed in the plaintiff-friendly W.D. Tex. (Waco) division, then the leading patent venue, before Judge Alan Albright.

Notable case and context. Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Reolink Digital Technology (6:21-cv-00608, W.D. Tex., filed 11 June 2021) asserted US 6,972,790, US 8,165,867 and US 8,537,242 against Reolink's camera products. Cedar Lane is a prolific Canadian monetization entity widely characterized as a patent assertion entity. Per Reolink's IPO disclosure, the parties settled in August 2021 for US$10,000 with a perpetual worldwide license; the case was voluntarily dismissed with prejudice in September 2021.