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Samsung in Patent Infringement Suit with a Patent Troll

Samsung Electronics has as of late been entangled in a patent encroachment claim in the United States for phone wireless charging innovation. The licenses were initially claimed by LG Electronics, which as of late declared an exit from the cell phone business. The licenses were allegedly given over to a European patent troll.

Samsung Electronics and Samsung Electronics’ American auxiliary were sued by Scramoge situated in Dublin, Ireland, on April 30. Scramoge has a place with Atlantic IP, an Irish patent administration organization that likewise controls Neodron, Solas OLED, and Sonrai Memory, which documented a few claims against Samsung Electronics.

The patent troll documented a suit against Samsung Electronics with the Western District Court in Texas, asserting that the Korean tech organization encroached on three of its innovation licenses. It guaranteed that Samsung Electronics caused harm by assembling and distributing items that straightforwardly encroached its licenses in the United States.

Scramoge says that Samsung Electronics utilized its licenses in 28 cell phone models including the Galaxy S6 Edge delivered in 2015 and the Galaxy S21 dispatched in mid-2021. It added that Samsung’s foldable cell phones – the Galaxy Z Fold and the Z Fold 25G – additionally violated their licenses.

Scramoge bought three licenses identified with remote charging from LG Innotek in 2021. LG Innotek authoritatively enrolled the licenses with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Jan. 24, 2017. The organization offered the licenses to Scramoge in mid-February of this current year.

Furthermore, LG Innotek sold more than 120 licenses enrolled with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to Scramoge. LG Electronics is LG Innotec’s biggest investor with a 40.79 percent stake.

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LG Patent for Crystal Sound Display Tech

A new patent from LG has surfaced this recent week showing audio coming from computer display tech. The way this tech works is by generating a sound traveling to the front region of the display. The sound outputs including S1, S2, and, S3 based on a display vibration module. The S1 and S2 output are created based on the vibration to the front screen region whereas the S3 sound output generated to the side region of the display.

A similar patent has also been filed by Apple in the year 2015, saying the tech can be applied to their various line of devices including iPhone, iPad, or iMac monitor. Apple had that patent granted way back in 2017. While there’s no device that has come yet from Apple with this display tech, anticipations are Apple is going to include it in their redesigned iMac.

The LG patent has been published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office with the company stating that the invention is to provide a display apparatus module for providing improved sound quality and for increasing an immersion experience of a viewer. Another aspect of the invention is to provide a display apparatus that generates sound for traveling to a forward region in front of a display panel.

The display tech by LG is called “Crystal Sound Display” aiming at Desktops, Notebooks, and TVs. While the patent title just says “DISPLAY APPARATUS”. You can find the patent 20200213699 details right here.