Synaptics Incorporated

Let me verify the NPE plaintiff behind the tracked case.

Synaptics Incorporated (Nasdaq: SYNA) is a fabless semiconductor company founded in 1986 by Federico Faggin and Carver Mead and headquartered at 1109 McKay Drive, San Jose, California. Originally incorporated in California, it reincorporated in Delaware in 2002 and has been publicly traded since January 2002. It employs roughly 1,700 people. For fiscal 2026 (ended June 27, 2026) it reported net revenue of $1,197.2 million and a net loss of $490.8 million, the latter driven largely by a non-cash U.S. deferred-tax valuation allowance. In June 2026 Synaptics agreed to be acquired by ON Semiconductor (onsemi); the deal was amended in October 2026 to $123 per share in cash (about $5.7 billion), with closing targeted for mid-2027 pending shareholder and regulatory approvals.

Synaptics designs and sells mixed-signal semiconductor and software platforms for human-interface, connectivity, and edge-AI applications. Reported product categories are Enterprise and Automotive ($641.1M in FY2026 — PC touchpads, fingerprint sensors, video-interface ICs, and automotive touch/display solutions), Core IoT ($389.7M — the Veros wireless family covering Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/BLE, Zigbee, Thread, Matter, GPS/GNSS and UWB, plus the Astra AI-native edge processors and MCUs), and Mobile ($166.4M — touch and display driver/TDDI silicon). Biometric products are marketed under the Natural ID brand. The company is fabless, using third-party foundries, and reports a single operating segment.

Litigation posture: the tracked data show one case as defendant and zero as plaintiff — the profile of an operating company being targeted rather than an active two-way litigant or an assertion entity. There is no evidence in the data of Synaptics asserting patents offensively.

Notable case: Biometric Technology Holdings LLC v. Synaptics Incorporated (D. Del., 1:2019-cv-01252, filed July 2, 2019). The plaintiff is a shell-style licensor that filed a cluster of biometric-patent suits in mid-2019, including a parallel action against Iris ID Systems in the District of New Jersey — a pattern consistent with a non-practicing entity asserting acquired fingerprint/biometric patents against sensor makers. The suit landed in Delaware rather than the Eastern District of Texas. Details of the case's outcome are not established here.