LG Electronics stated Thursday it has signed an settlement with Amazon.com to grant the U.S. e-commerce big a license to make use of its Wi-Fi applied sciences.
The Korean tech big stated the settlement will enable Amazon to make use of LG’s Wi-Fi standard-essential patents for the U.S. firm’s synthetic intelligence (AI) speaker Alexa, together with different providers.
Commonplace-essential patents consult with main applied sciences which might be important in producing standardized merchandise.
“LG Electronics is presently beneath license negotiations with a number of world firms aside from Amazon for standard-essential patents associated to Wi-Fi expertise,” the corporate stated in a launch.
LG Electronics stated it had held 97,880 registered patents at house and overseas as of June, with round half of them being standard-essential patents.
The corporate stated it would proceed efforts to safe patents for cutting-edge applied sciences in areas together with AI, quantum computing and sixth-generation networks.
