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1 case as defendant.
Company overview. Wybotics Co., Ltd. — the export-facing name of Tianjin Wangyuan Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (天津望圆智能科技股份有限公司), formerly Tianjin Wangyuan Environmental Protection and Technology Co., Ltd. — is a Chinese manufacturer of robotic pool cleaners based at No. 30 Zhongnan 4th Street, West Zone, TEDA, Tianjin. Its predecessor was established December 23, 2005 (HKEX prospectus; Baidu Baike). It is privately held; controlling shareholders are founder/chairwoman Fu Guilan and her son Yu Qian. The company is seeking a Hong Kong main-board listing (sole sponsor CITIC Construction Investment International), refiling in April 2026 after a September 2025 filing lapsed; it withdrew an earlier Shenzhen main-board application in March 2024. Prospectus financials show revenue of RMB378m (2023), RMB544m (2024) and RMB812m (2025), with net profit of RMB100m in 2025; a September 2025 pre-IPO round implied a valuation of roughly RMB1.65bn. PRC social-insurance filings indicate roughly 290–325 employees.
Products/operations. Research, design, manufacture and marketing of robotic pool cleaners — cordless, corded and handheld models (48 main SKUs), cleaning pool floors, walls and waterlines. Branded sales run under WYBOT and Winny Pool Cleaner via Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Lowe's, Target, Home Depot and the company's own Shopify sites, mainly in North America and Europe; it also supplies ODM units to pool-equipment brands such as Bestway, CASH and Productos QP. This is an operating manufacturer, not an NPE.
Patent-litigation posture. Purely defensive. Its single tracked appearance is as a defendant; it has no plaintiff-side assertion activity in the data.
Notable case. Zodiac Pool Systems LLC and Zodiac Pool Care Europe (Fluidra group) filed a Section 337 complaint on July 29, 2022 alleging infringement of U.S. Patents 8,393,029 and 8,393,031 by robotic pool cleaners. The USITC instituted Investigation No. 337-TA-1326 on August 29, 2022 against Wybotics (then Tianjin Wangyuan Environmental Protection and Technology Co., Ltd.), Tianjin Pool & Spa and the Aiper entities, seeking a limited exclusion order and cease-and-desist orders. Parallel C.D. Cal. and French actions covered the same products. Complainants withdrew as to Wybotics, and the Commission terminated the investigation in March 2023; the Aiper entities took a consent order.
Section 337 investigation at the USITC filed by Zodiac Pool Systems LLC and Zodiac Pool Care Europe against Wybotics Co. Ltd. d/b/a Winny Pool Cleaner et al. asserting U.S. Patents 8,393,029 and 8,393,031. Instituted 2022-08-29. The narrative states this case does not assert U.S. 9,995,051.