Followed by China’s OPPO and TCL King, vivo became the third one to buy US standard patents from LG Electronics, which is making profits by selling patents after exiting the mobile phone business in 2021.

According to the report on November 27, information from the USPTO shows that LG Electronics sold 46 U.S. standard patents to vivo early last month, most of which are standard codec patents required for video signal compression. Codec Converter refers to the technology that compresses and decompresses digital video and audio.

The technology group of 46 patents includes: intra-frame prediction, inter-frame prediction, transform coding, motion vector prediction, chroma format, affine motion prediction, bitstream signal processing and high-frequency zeroing, etc.

It’s reported that LG Electronics transferred 31 Korean patent families related to these techniques to vivo.

In fact, this is not the first time that LG Electronics has sold standard patents to a Chinese company. LG Electronics sold 55 U.S. standard patents to OPPO from November 2023 to April 2024. In January 2024, it also transferred 14 U.S. standard patents to TCL King. LG Electronics sold 32 Korean patent families to oppo in the second quarter, 7 Korean related patents to TCL King in the third quarter. TCL King is a subsidiary of TCL Group.

From IPRdaily

November 29th, 2024