Furuno U.S.A., Inc. is the U.S. sales and distribution subsidiary of Furuno Electric Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime, ticker 6814), a Japanese marine-electronics manufacturer headquartered in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan. Furuno U.S.A. was established in 1978 in San Francisco and relocated to Camas, Washington, in 1998; it serves North America, Central/South America, and the Caribbean. The parent was incorporated in 1951 (predecessor founded 1938), reports about 3,400 consolidated employees and consolidated net sales of roughly ¥140.6 billion for the fiscal year ended February 2026, and is public — not a subsidiary of a larger group.
Products / operations. Furuno is an operating manufacturer, not an NPE. Its marine business produces radar, fish finders and scanning sonar, GPS/GNSS chart plotters, autopilots, AIS, satellite communications equipment, and voyage data recorders for fishing, merchant, government, and recreational vessels. Its industrial segment covers GPS/GNSS chips and modules, medical equipment, ITS/ETC vehicle devices, weather and infrastructure monitoring systems, plus wireless LAN access points and handheld terminals. Furuno U.S.A. is disclosed as a "specified subsidiary" accounting for more than 10% of consolidated sales (¥16.9 billion in the most recent filing).
Litigation posture. The tracked database lists four cases, all plaintiff-side and none as defendant: two Section 337 investigations at the U.S. International Trade Commission and two patent suits in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. This is the profile of an operating company asserting its own product patents against competitor marine/navigation electronics makers, not an NPE or a serial defendant. Venues are the ITC and Oregon (where Furuno has U.S. operations), not the Eastern District of Texas.
Notable cases. Furuno sued Honeywell (ITC, 2011; Inv. 337-TA-810, terminated by settlement in 2012) and in 2013 filed ITC Inv. 337-TA-900 against Garmin, Navico, and Raymarine, alongside parallel Oregon district-court actions against Navico and Raymarine. The asserted patents ('565, '292, '561, '447) cover radar displays, multi-window display systems, and range-change redraw functions tied to Furuno's NavNet products. Garmin was terminated from the ITC investigation by settlement in mid-2014. Contemporaneous trade reporting indicates Furuno was also named in related Honeywell and Raymarine counter-suits; those do not appear in the tracked data.