Tattile

Tattile S.r.l. (commonly "Tattile") is an Italian developer and manufacturer of automatic license plate recognition (ANPR/ALPR) cameras and related software. Founded in 1988 by four engineers in Brescia, the company is headquartered at Via Gaetano Donizetti 1/3/5, Mairano (Brescia), Lombardy. It is not independent: Tattile was acquired in 2012 by private-equity-backed Lakesight Technologies, which was in turn acquired 100% by Netherlands-listed TKH Group N.V. (Euronext Amsterdam: TKH) in November 2018 and folded into TKH's vision & security segment. Italian registry filings report FY2024 turnover of about €23.8 million and a workforce in the 50–99 band; third-party databases list roughly 90–110 employees. TKH's 2018 release cited €45 million turnover for Lakesight's three operating units combined (Tattile, Chromasens, Mikrotron).

Products and operations. Tattile designs, manufactures and tests its cameras in Italy. Its line includes ANPR/ALPR smart cameras (Smart, Vega and Basic families, plus ANPR Mobile for in-vehicle patrol use), free-flow and stop-and-go tolling systems, pay-by-plate, axle counting and weight-in-motion, average-speed and red-light enforcement, access control and parking, vehicle tracking, railway-crossing monitoring, and passenger information systems for rail operators. Software offerings include the Stark platform (Stark OCR, Stark Controller, Stark Fusion) and the Inspector event-management platform, with embedded OCR libraries for many countries. It also sells machine-vision cameras. Tattile announced the acquisition of Comark, a traffic-counting and smart-parking firm, in July 2024.

Litigation posture. Tattile is an operating company, not an NPE. Our tracked data shows a single case, in which it is the defendant and never the plaintiff — the profile of a product company targeted by a patent holder. The case, Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Tattile s.r.l. (6:22-cv-00962), was filed in September 2022 in the Western District of Texas before Judge Alan Albright, a plaintiff-friendly venue, and was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice in October 2022. Cedar Lane is a well-documented Canadian patent-assertion entity that acquired patents originating with Intellectual Ventures entities and has filed hundreds of suits; that campaign characteristically targets camera and image-processing technology of the kind Tattile sells.