Texas Instruments Inc.

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is a global public semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1930 as Geophysical Service Incorporated and taking its current name in 1951, the company trades on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker TXN. A major player in the semiconductor industry, Texas Instruments employs approximately 34,000 people and reported revenues in the range of $17.5 billion to $18.4 billion in recent years.

TI designs and manufactures analog and embedded processing chips, which constitute the vast majority of its revenue. Its main product categories include analog chips for power management (such as regulators and battery management ICs) and signal chain applications (like amplifiers and data converters). The company is also a leading producer of embedded processors, including microcontrollers (MCUs) and digital signal processors (DSPs), which serve as the core processing units in a wide array of electronic devices. TI's semiconductors are sold into the industrial, automotive, personal electronics, and communications equipment markets. The company also produces its well-known line of educational calculators and Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology used in projectors.

As a major operating company, Texas Instruments is frequently a target of patent litigation. The provided data shows TI as a plaintiff in a single 2024 case at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). This action is characteristic of an operating company defending itself against infringement allegations. Companies that have been sued for patent infringement, like TI, often file petitions at the PTAB to challenge the validity of the patents being asserted against them.

The tracked case, Texas Instruments Inc. v. Greenthread, LLC, is an inter partes review (IPR) petition filed by TI. This PTAB proceeding is a direct response to a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Greenthread against TI in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in April 2023. Greenthread has filed similar lawsuits against numerous other technology companies, indicating a pattern of patent assertion. TI's PTAB filing represents a defensive measure aimed at invalidating the patent it was accused of infringing.