NXP USA Sells 24 U.S. Semiconductor Patents to Ascale Technologies LLC

Texas firm makes its first U.S. patent purchase

(Source: https://www.nxp.com/store:STORE?cid=ps__tac2031450_ggle&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAk8G9BhA0EiwAOQxmfuae19wF4fTpydauBGN6t2Z7wnKDbFpdeghFQ1bg53piZBjDsE65shoCWDcQAvD_BwE)

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NXP USA, Inc. sold 24 U.S. semiconductor and integrated circuit patents to Ascale Technologies LLC in December 2024. 

The portfolio covers a range of technologies, including memory and storage devices, power management and voltage scaling, error correction and data integrity, processor and data processing systems, data transmission and communications, thread scheduling and resource management, interconnect and bus technologies, integration and packaging techniques (including 3D stacking and sensor integration), and circuit design and routing.

This marks the first time that the Texas-based Ascale Technologies LLC has acquired U.S. patents. Ascale Technologies LLC has not yet initiated litigation relating to these patents.

Previously, NXP USA has sold patents to various companies:

- February 2023: 8 patents to TOTAL SEMICONDUCTOR, LLC

- November 2023: 10 patents to EIREOG INNOVATIONS LIMITED

- March 2024: 49 patents to VELOCITY COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES LLC

- April 2024: 4 patents to SONY GROUP CORPORATION

- July 2024: 41 patents to CHIP PACKAGING TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

Related: Chip Packaging Attacks Infineon With Patent Infringement Suit Over NXP-Acquired Patents

(Source: USPTO)

The list of patents that NXP USA sold to Ascale Technologies LLC is as follows (Source: USPTO):

Patent    Application    Invention title

7490266 11352695 INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH IMPROVED POWER SOURCE MONITORING AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH

7640389 11364129 NON-VOLATILE MEMORY HAVING A MULTIPLE BLOCK ERASE MODE AND METHOD THEREFOR

7681106 11392321 ERROR CORRECTION DEVICE AND METHODS THEREOF

7619464 11460732 CURRENT COMPARISON BASED VOLTAGE BIAS GENERATOR FOR ELECTRONIC DATA STORAGE DEVICES

7471582 11460745 MEMORY CIRCUIT USING A REFERENCE FOR SENSING

7428172 11487863 CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING AND PROGRAM VERIFICATION OF FLOATING GATE TRANSISTOR

7953991 11507378 PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH

7378993 11619932 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSMITTING DATA

7616509 11777635 DYNAMIC VOLTAGE ADJUSTMENT FOR MEMORY

8223910 11917111 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION

8739165 12017988 SHARED RESOURCE BASED THREAD SCHEDULING WITH AFFINITY AND/OR SELECTABLE CRITERIA

8760136 12660951 DYNAMIC VOLTAGE SCALING INTERFACE

8972700 13036251 MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LATENCY TOLERANCE EXECUTION

8639884 13037013 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING LOAD/STORE EXECUTION UNITS

8904150 13116325 MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HANDLING INSTRUCTIONS WITH MULTIPLE DEPENDENCIES

9141391 13419531 DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM WITH LATENCY TOLERANCE EXECUTION

8984254 13630346 Techniques for Utilizing Translation Lookaside Buffer Entry Numbers to Improve Processor Performance

9041564 13739749 BUS SIGNAL ENCODED WITH DATA AND CLOCK SIGNALS

9094135 13914021 DIE STACK WITH OPTICAL TSVS

9435952 13914089 INTEGRATION OF A MEMS BEAM WITH OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE AND DEFLECTION IN TWO DIMENSIONS

9088280 14067320 BODY BIAS CONTROL CIRCUIT

9389954 14190949 Memory Redundancy to Replace Addresses with Multiple Errors

9165102 14246544 Routing Standard Cell-Based Integrated Circuits

None 14843659 Routing Standard Cell-Based Integrated Circuits

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