Blemel Technologies LLC

Company overview. Blemel Technologies LLC is a private New York limited liability company incorporated on May 27, 2011, with its registered address at 75 Montebello Road, Suffern, NY (Rockland County). No public sources report employees, revenue, or a parent company; it appears to be a small, closely held entity associated with inventor Kenneth G. Blemel, who is listed as the sole named inventor of the patent the company asserts.

Products / services / operations. No operating business or commercial product line is identifiable; Blemel Technologies is best characterized as a non-practicing entity (NPE). Its sole known asset is U.S. Patent No. 6,938,177, "Multi-Chip Module Smart Controller," covering an FPGA-based instrument controller for embedded monitoring and control (data acquisition, time-stamped digitization, parallel processing) in applications such as aircraft propulsion health monitoring and machinery control. The invention was developed in New Mexico, partly under U.S. Air Force SBIR funding, and was originally assigned to Sentient Sensors LLC of Albuquerque before coming to Blemel Technologies. RPX and the Ex Parte docket database classify Blemel as an NPE/licensing entity.

Patent-litigation posture. Blemel is a pure plaintiff-side patent assertion entity: 1 tracked case as plaintiff, 0 as defendant. The case was filed in the Eastern District of Texas (Marshall Division), a venue favored by NPEs, and a related action was filed in the Western District of Texas. National Instruments moved to transfer the case to Austin, but the court denied the motion, finding the Eastern District not clearly inconvenient.

Notable cases. The tracked case is Blemel Technologies LLC v. National Instruments Corp. (E.D. Tex. No. 2:15-cv-00134, filed Feb. 3, 2015), alleging willful infringement of the '177 patent by NI's CompactRIO, FlexRIO, and sbRIO reconfigurable I/O products. The case closed in December 2016. The '177 patent later became the subject of IPR2023-00195, petitioned by Xilinx, Inc. against Sentient Sensors, the patent's original assignee.