Texas Instruments Incorporated

Texas Instruments Incorporated, commonly known as TI, is a publicly traded American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1930 as Geophysical Service Incorporated, it was reorganized and renamed Texas Instruments in 1951. The company trades on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol TXN. As a major global semiconductor company, TI employs approximately 34,000 people and reported revenues in the range of $17-18 billion in recent fiscal years.

TI is a leading designer and manufacturer of semiconductors. The company's operations are primarily focused on two major segments: analog chips and embedded processors, which together account for over 80% of its revenue. Its analog products include power management ICs and signal chain components that sense and measure real-world signals. The embedded processing portfolio includes microcontrollers and processors for a wide variety of electronic applications. These components are sold to over 100,000 customers for use in markets such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics, and communications equipment. TI also produces its well-known line of calculators and Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology.

As a large operating company, Texas Instruments' patent litigation posture is primarily that of a defendant protecting its products and technology. The provided case data shows TI as a defendant in a single tracked suit, consistent with a pattern of being targeted by patent assertion entities. This case, Greenthread, LLC v. Texas Instruments Incorporated, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, a venue historically popular with patent plaintiffs.

The case against TI is part of a larger litigation campaign by Greenthread, LLC, which has also sued other major technology companies over patents related to semiconductor fabrication. In the suit against Texas Instruments, Greenthread has asserted six patents targeting a wide array of semiconductor products, from amplifiers to digital signal processors. Public records indicate that TI has challenged the validity of at least one of the asserted patents before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board.