AvioVision N.V. (commonly "AvioVision"; registered with Belgium's CBE as AVIOVISION, enterprise no. 0823.835.450) is a Belgian aviation-software company headquartered at Herkenrodesingel 8D, Hasselt. The legal entity was formed in March 2010 (some databases list a 2009 founding); it was founded by Kris Van den Bergh and Patrick Van Dessel and originally based in Leuven. It has been a subsidiary of France's Thales Group since October 2016; the company's Rule 7.1 disclosure in the case below identifies Thales S.A. and Thales AVS France SAS as its corporate parents. It is not separately publicly traded. Size figures vary by source and should be treated cautiously: PitchBook lists ~131 employees, while other aggregators show far smaller figures (roughly 15–76 staff and revenue in the ~$5–6M range); Belgian register data show share capital of about €11.9M.
AvioVision develops and sells digital flight-operations software, principally Aviobook, an Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) suite used by pilots and airlines for flight planning and aircraft documentation, along with related ground-staff and cabin-crew applications. Reporting indicates Aviobook has been deployed across roughly 1,600+ aircraft for dozens of airline customers. The company also supplies hardware/connectivity products, including the AvioCast Aircraft Interface Device (AID), which provides LTE ground connectivity and onboard Wi-Fi for flight crews.
Litigation posture: AvioVision appears once in the tracked data, as plaintiff and zero times as defendant. That single case, however, is a defensive declaratory-judgment action rather than offensive NPE-style assertion: AvioVision N.V. v. Intellectual Ventures II LLC, No. 1:26-cv-00134 (D. Del., filed Feb. 4, 2026), seeks a declaration of non-infringement of U.S. Patent No. 11,032,000 ("Communications in a Wireless Network"). The accused product is AvioCast. Intellectual Ventures II answered and counterclaimed for infringement; AvioVision replied on July 20, 2026, and the case remains in scheduling. Venue is the District of Delaware — a common forum for supplier-side declaratory actions — not the Eastern District of Texas.
Context: The dispute traces to Intellectual Ventures' broader airline litigation campaign, including its suits against Southwest Airlines (W.D. Tex.) and American Airlines (E.D. Tex.) over in-flight connectivity and Wi-Fi systems, where third-party suppliers such as Viasat and Anuvu filed parallel Delaware declaratory-judgment actions. AvioVision's suit follows the same pattern: an operating supplier moving first in Delaware to resolve infringement allegations tied to equipment installed on a customer's aircraft.