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1 case as defendant.
Sensormatic Electronics, Inc. — also registered in Florida as Sensormatic Electronics, LLC and marketed as Sensormatic Solutions — is headquartered at 6600 Congress Avenue, Boca Raton, Florida. Its own corporate history dates the enterprise to 1966, when cousins Ronald Assaf and Jack Welch developed an early electronic article surveillance (EAS) system; some third‑party databases list different founding years (1970, 1984). The business went public in 1969, was acquired by Tyco International in 2001, and became part of Johnson Controls International plc (NYSE: JCI) when Tyco merged with Johnson Controls in 2016. It operates today as a Johnson Controls subsidiary; JCI does not break out Sensormatic as a reporting segment, and third‑party revenue/headcount estimates for it vary so widely that none is reliable (sensormatic.com "About Us"; RAIN RFID membership directory; CB Insights).
This is a real operating company, not an NPE. Product lines include EAS detection systems and pedestals, hard tags, labels and detachers, source tagging and tag recirculation, RFID inventory intelligence, ShopperTrak traffic/people‑counting analytics, AI‑assisted video surveillance and loss‑prevention platforms, and the Sensormatic IQ connected retail platform. Company materials state its solutions serve roughly 70% of the world's top 100 retailers.
Operating company defending against an NPE. The tracked data show 1 case, 0 as plaintiff and 1 as defendant: Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Sensormatic Electronics, Inc., filed 2022‑09‑29 in D. Del. before Judge Andrews. Cedar Lane is a Canadian patent‑assertion entity that acquires patents (including from Intellectual Ventures) and has filed hundreds of suits; Unified Patents and the Stanford NPE database identify it as an NPE. The suit sits in Delaware rather than the Eastern District of Texas.
The single tracked matter follows the typical pattern of a large operating company targeted by an acquired‑portfolio assertion. Third‑party litigation databases also report that Sensormatic itself has occasionally asserted patents in Delaware (e.g., against Genetec in 2020); that matter is not in the tracked case list above.
Cedar Lane sued Sensormatic Electronics, Inc. in D. Del. on the '242. Voluntary dismissal 2023-02-10 (134 days); notice text states with prejudice, each party bears own costs.