Datascription speech recognition patent challenged

On October 16, 2026, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,230,547, owned by Datascription LLC, an NPE. The ’547 patent relates to transcribing media using speech recognition, normalizing the audio’s loudness over time onto a universal scale, and storing the time-aligned transcription, video frames, and loudness values in a searchable database. The patent has been used in litigation.

View district court litigations by Datascription. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jenn Bisk and Kelly Hughes, in this proceeding.

Intellectual Discovery video compression patent challenged

On October 14, 2026, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,677,940, owned by Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd., an NPE. The ‘940 patent covers a method for efficiently dividing video frames into smaller blocks for compression by using a Multi-Type-Tree (MTT) framework (quad-tree, binary-tree, and ternary-tree) with specific rules governing corner boundary splits as its alleged point of novelty. The ‘940 patent was identified as essential to Access Advance's VVC/H.266 pool and this filing is a part of Unified’s Video Codec SEP Zone.

Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Andrea Shoffstall and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

Another Wilus Wi-Fi patent challenge granted

On September 30, 2026, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,651,992, owned by Wilus Institute of Standards & Technology, Inc., an entity of Good Day to Invent, Inc. This overcame Wilus’s Pre-Order Paper seeking denial. The '992 patent relates to a wireless communication method for coexistence between a legacy wireless communication terminal and a non-legacy wireless communication terminal in a wireless communication environment. It has been asserted against Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) enabled network devices made by TP-Link and Askey Computer.

View district court litigations by Wilus. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Vinu Raj and TJ Murphy, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016496

Wyoming Tech auto patent challenged

On September 23, 2026, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,046,696, owned by Wyoming Technology Licensing LLC, an NPE and entity of Leigh M. Rothschild. The ’696 patent relates to an apparatus for automatically controlling a function of a car. It is currently asserted against Lucid Group, Hyundai, FCA, and BMW.

View district court litigations by Wyoming Technology Licensing. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Vinu Raj, in this proceeding.

Velos HEVC video codec patent challenged

On September 18, 2026, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,786,596, owned by Velos Media, an NPE. The '596 patent generally relates to methods of encoding video data, and specifically encoding or decoding coefficients for a transform unit using sign bit hiding. The patent has not been in litigation but is related to patents that have been asserted against streaming applications.

View district court litigations by Velos. Unified is represented by Jon Bowser and Dan Smith of Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Vinu Raj, in this proceeding.