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Avanci Aftermarket signs License Agreement with electronic toll collection leader Axxès

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Pioneer in toll collection technologies joins Avanci Aftermarket program, licensing essential patented technologies used by its products

DUBLIN, Ireland, July 20, 2023 – Avanci, the independent leader in simplifying how technology is shared, today announced that Axxès, a leading European innovator of electronic toll services with more than 40,000 customers and over 300,000 equipped vehicles on Europe’s roads, has joined the Avanci Aftermarket program.

Avanci Aftermarket offers licenses for connected products installed in vehicles after their original sale, with more than 40 patent owners licensing their 4G, 3G and 2G essential patents through the program. As a licensee, Axxès will benefit from efficient and transparent access to patented wireless technologies enabling innovation in Europe’s interoperable/electronic toll collection market.

“We are happy to welcome Axxès to our Avanci Aftermarket program,” said Marianne Frydenlund, Vice President at Avanci. “Their commitment to driving innovation in the electronic toll collection sector aligns with our own mission to ensure that product makers can efficiently license patented technologies used in their automotive aftermarket devices. More broadly, this latest addition to the Avanci marketplace underscores our momentum in providing simple technology-sharing solutions across the automotive industry. We will continue to explore licensing solutions for new categories of connected products as the Internet of Things evolves.”

Electronic toll collection systems offer significant benefits, such as streamlined toll collection and efficient data collection among others. The European Commission promoted the creation of a European Electronic Toll Service (EETS) to enable road users to pay tolls and charges throughout the EU, through a contract with a single EETS Service Provider and with a single on-board unit. Particularly for freight traffic, this cross-border capability has significant potential to improve efficiencies for road hauliers.

“Axxès is at the forefront of transforming electronic toll collection for road hauliers, and in 2015 became the first registered EETS provider,” said Frédéric Lepeintre, chairman and CEO of Axxès. “We bring value to our customers by selecting and operating the right technical solution to allow them to operate their business more and more efficiently. Beside our expertise in tolling, we support our customers by providing smart and simple mobility solutions. We are confident that being an Avanci licensee will help us to continue to deliver innovative solutions to the market.”

Avanci continues to transform how companies share essential technologies. Its programs license essential patents for technologies created by thousands of inventors at companies and research institutes around the world, in a single transaction at fixed rates, paid once for the lifetime of the product. By streamlining technology-sharing to a single licensing agreement, Avanci Aftermarket provides an efficient and transparent way for manufacturers such as Axxès to access the patented cellular technologies used in their aftermarket devices.

Avanci Broadcast adds ETRI, KPN, NEC and NERC-DTV as Licensors

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One-stop Licensing Platform Expands to Over 80% of Essential Patent Families for the ATSC 3.0 Broadcasting Standard

Avanci Broadcast, the one-stop licensing platform for ATSC 3.0 launched in March 2023, today announced the addition of four new licensors, based in China, Japan, the Netherlands and South Korea.

The many talented researchers and inventors at ETRI, KPN, NEC and NERC-DTV have enabled those organizations to be significant contributors to the ATSC 3.0 / NextGenTV standard. Alongside the initial Avanci Broadcast licensors, they are collectively responsible for more than 80% of all families containing patents declared essential for ATSC 3.0.

Avanci Broadcast is an independent intermediary which streamlines the licensing process, offering makers of products such as TVs and set-top boxes a single agreement covering the ATSC 3.0 standard essential patents (SEPs) of all its licensors, avoiding the need to negotiate individual bi-lateral agreements with each.

Existing Avanci Broadcast licensees including LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp and Sony are now also licensed to ATSC 3.0 SEPs of these new licensors at no additional cost, increasing the value of their license. For new licensees, Avanci Broadcast is currently offering terms for early adopters.

“We believe that our market-based solution supports the adoption and growth of NextGenTV by removing uncertainty around licensing,” said Ilkka Rahnasto, Senior Vice President at Avanci Broadcast. “We appreciate the trust and support of our newest licensors, as well as our existing partners.”

Avanci welcomes Samsung Electronics

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Leading global innovator joins several Avanci licensing programs, increasing value for licensees

Avanci, a leader in simplifying the sharing of advanced technologies, today announced that Samsung Electronics has become a licensor for several of its licensing programs, including Avanci Vehicle 4G, Avanci Aftermarket and Avanci Broadcast.

Avanci has transformed how companies share technology, enabling product makers to access patented technology from many companies and research institutes in a single transaction at fixed rates, paid once for the product’s lifetime. The Avanci model efficiently helps businesses unlock the potential of technologies created by thousands of inventors around the globe to create innovative new products for their customers.

Existing licensees of Avanci Vehicle 4G, spanning more than 80 auto brands, are now also licensed to the 4/3/2G standard essential patents (SEPs) of Samsung Electronics for their connected vehicles, extending the value of their license. Similarly, Avanci Aftermarket licensees are covered for their aftermarket vehicle products.

Avanci also recently launched Avanci Broadcast, a one-stop licensing platform for the ATSC 3.0 television standard. Samsung Electronics was one of the largest contributors to the development of that standard and is among the initial licensors for the platform, which collectively represent more than 70% of all patent families containing patents declared essential for the ATSC 3.0 standard.  Samsung Electronics is also the world’s largest manufacturer of televisions and is one of the initial licensees for Avanci Broadcast, which collectively have been responsible for the vast majority of ATSC 3.0 televisions sold to date. “We are delighted to welcome Samsung Electronics, a global leader in innovation and a long-term contributor to the development of standardized technologies, as an Avanci licensor,” said Kasim Alfalahi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Avanci. “This announcement reinforces the broad industry enthusiasm for the Avanci model and adds value for existing and future licensees at no additional cost to them. We look forward to working with Samsung Electronics and our other partners on efficient licensing solutions for today and in the future.”

Avanci Broadcast Launched as One-Stop Licensing Platform for ATSC 3.0 Standard

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New Platform Includes More than 70% of ATSC 3.0 Essential Patent Families and Licensees Responsible for Vast Majority of ATSC 3.0 Televisions Sold to Date

DALLAS, Texas, March 7, 2023 – Avanci, a leader in simplifying the sharing of advanced technologies, has launched Avanci Broadcast, a patent licensing platform for the ATSC 3.0 broadcasting standard.

The Avanci Broadcast platform offers a simple and transparent pricing model for manufacturers of products such as TVs and set-top boxes that implement the standard, to streamline the process of licensing ATSC 3.0 essential technologies.

The new platform licenses the ATSC 3.0 essential patents of ETRI, LG Electronics, ONE Media, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, Sharp and Sun Patent Trust, which collectively represent more than 70% of all patent families containing ATSC 3.0 declared essential patents, and the Avanci Broadcast platform is expected to grow with the addition of several more licensors in the coming months.

Initial licensees include LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sharp and Sony, collectively responsible for the vast majority of ATSC 3.0 televisions sold to date.

Developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee, the ATSC 3.0 standard has been adopted for over-the-air TV broadcasts in countries including the United States and South Korea. Also known as NextGen TV, ATSC 3.0 enables 4K / UHD broadcast with higher frame rates, better color and sound, and other technical improvements over the previous standard. It also works hand-in-hand with content delivered over the internet for services such as customized advertising, on-demand and premium content, and interactivity.

Kasim Alfalahi, founder and CEO of Avanci, said: “We are delighted to launch a licensing platform for standardized technologies beyond cellular communications. With our experience in creating the one-stop marketplace for IoT and automotive licensing, we are well positioned to find solutions for other industries. We are excited to build on the trust we have with licensors and licensees to help bring simpler, more efficient approaches to make technology sharing easier in new markets.”

Ilkka Rahnasto, Senior Vice President at Avanci Broadcast, added: “We are proud to launch our new platform with several market leading companies amongst the first participants. We welcome the opportunity to engage with other ATSC 3.0 SEP owners and product makers to outline the benefits of joining Avanci Broadcast, including the advantages for licensees and licensors of being amongst the first to join.”

Avanci Launches Aftermarket Licensing Program

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Leader in licensing platforms for connected vehicles extends offering to aftermarket devices

DALLAS, Texas, February 21, 2023 – Avanci, a leader in simplifying the sharing of advanced technologies in the connected vehicle sector, has launched Avanci Aftermarket, a dedicated patent licensing program for the vehicle aftermarket.

Avanci Aftermarket builds on the success of the Avanci Vehicle marketplace for connected vehicles, offering licenses for connected products installed in vehicles after their original sale. These include devices installed in the vehicle, or used in a container, trailer or other equipment designed to be hauled by a vehicle.

Avanci has transformed the way companies share technology by licensing intellectual property from many different patent holders in a single transaction, at fixed rates, paid once for the lifetime of the device. By streamlining the technology sharing process, Avanci provides an efficient and transparent way for manufacturers to access the patented wireless technology needed for their aftermarket solutions.

Avanci Aftermarket launches with more than 40 patent owners licensing their cellular essential patents through the program, including many licensors from the Avanci Vehicle 4G program. Among the initial licensees are a company collecting road tolls and a leading provider of intelligent transport systems for the public transport sector.

“We are pleased to launch Avanci Aftermarket with the support of a significant group of licensors, and we welcome our first licensees,” said Marianne Frydenlund, Vice President at Avanci. “With our experience in creating the one-stop licensing marketplace for connected vehicles, the addition of vehicle aftermarket devices is a natural extension that builds on that success. We are committed to providing efficient licensing solutions for new categories of connected products as the Internet of Things expands.”

Analysts Berg Insight estimate aftermarket telematics as an annual market of over 45 million units today, with growth forecast to more than 70 million units in 2026.

Avanci Aftermarket licenses three product categories: monitoring only, infotainment, and other multi-function products. Royalty rates range from $3 per device for 3G/2G monitoring products to $15 per device for 4G/3G/2G infotainment products.

Visit avanci.com/aftermarket to learn more about the Avanci Aftermarket program.

Avanci announces UNISOC as a new licensor

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Leading platform chip design company joins Avanci’s one-stop licensing marketplace for connected vehicles

DALLAS, Texas, February 13, 2023 – Today, Avanci announced that UNISOC has joined its one-stop connected vehicle licensing marketplace. As a result, all existing and future Avanci Vehicle 4G licensees will be licensed to the 4G, 3G and 2G essential patents created and owned by UNISOC, as well as those of the other 54 patent owners in the marketplace.

Avanci Vehicle has transformed the way companies share technology by licensing intellectual property from many different patent holders in a single transaction, at fixed rates, paid once for the lifetime of the vehicle. By streamlining the technology sharing process, Avanci provides automotive manufacturers with an efficient and transparent way to access the wireless technology needed for their connected vehicles. More than 100 million connected vehicles on the world’s roads, from over 80 automotive brands, are covered by an Avanci license.

Laurie Fitzgerald, Senior Vice President at Avanci, said: “We are pleased to welcome UNISOC, a company focused on communications chipset development and innovation, as an Avanci licensor. UNISOC joins our existing licensors, including several leading Chinese companies, in licensing their cellular essential patents to automakers around the world.”

Jiejing Yang, Head of Legal Department of UNISOC, said: “UNISOC is devoted to innovation in advanced cellular technologies. We also look for efficient and transparent ways to license our cellular essential patents to implementers in different industries. We value the Avanci marketplace for its one-stop licensing approach for IoT and automotive manufacturers and its important role in establishing a healthy industry ecosystem.”

About UNISOC

UNISOC is a leading platform chip design company. It is one of the few companies in the world that has fully mastered 2G/3G/4G/5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, TV FM, satellite communications and other related technologies.

UNISOC has extensive expertise in large-scale chip integration and complete peripheral chip integration. UNISOC product portfolio includes mobile communication central processing units, baseband chips, AI chipsets, radio frequency front-end chips, radio frequency chips and other communication, computing and control chips, etc.

Avanci joins World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators Community

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Avanci to continue engagement with the Forum’s platforms to help shape the global agenda on key issues

 

Avanci, a leader in enabling the sharing of technologies used by a wide range of products, has been invited to become part of the World Economic Forum’s Global Innovators Community.

The Global lnnovators Community is a group of the world’s most promising start-ups and scale-ups that are at the forefront of technological and business model innovation. The World Economic Forum provides the Community with a platform to engage with public and private sector leaders and to contribute new solutions to overcome current crises and build future resiliency.

Verena Kuhn, Head of the Global Innovators Community, World Economic Forum, says: “The World Economic Forum is happy to have Avanci continue its engagement with the Forum by joining our Global Innovators community. Including new, innovative voices is essential in the work we do at the Forum, and we look forward to how Avanci’s expertise will continue to add to our projects, dialogues and platforms.”

Kasim Alfalahi, founder and CEO of Avanci, says: “We are excited to continue our journey with World Economic Forum as part of its Global Innovators Community, having been recognized as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in 2020. Our continuing vision is that sharing technology on a global scale should be simpler. We look forward to continuing to work with the Forum’s Platforms on key issues such as the Future of Mobility.”

Since being named a Technology Pioneer, the Avanci one-stop marketplace for connected vehicles has grown to more than 80 auto brands licensed to cellular patents from 52 licensors, with more than 100 million licensed vehicles on the world’s roads.

More information on the Global Innovators Community can be found here.

 

About the Forum:

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. It was established in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests.

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Avanci Expands 4G Coverage to Over 80 Auto Brands

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Avanci’s one-stop licensing marketplace now covers more than 100 million connected vehicles on the world’s roads

Avanci announced that more than 100 million connected vehicles sold by more than 80 automotive brands are covered by an Avanci license, and that it predicts an additional 30-40 million connected vehicles to be licensed in the next year. Having licensed the majority of patented 2G, 3G, and 4G cellular technologies to the majority of the connected vehicle market, Avanci is the established industry solution for essential patent licensing in the automotive space.

“We are incredibly pleased with the overwhelming adoption of our solution across both the telecommunications and automotive industries,” said Kasim Alfalahi, founder and chief executive officer of Avanci. “This level of participation validates our long-standing commitment to offer a simple, predictable and efficient solution for the Internet of Things, benefiting new technology adoption. We look forward to making licensing simpler and more efficient for a wide range of companies, as we explore new programs for massive, critical, and industrial IoT.”

“We are grateful to all the participants in our automotive licensing program for joining our effort to create a new way to license patents. Our work to date is a strong foundation for building our planned program for 5G connected vehicles,” added Laurie Fitzgerald, Senior Vice President at Avanci.

The auto makers participating in Avanci’s licensing program for 4G connected vehicles benefit from a license to all the 2G, 3G, and 4G cellular standard essential patents of the 51 patent owners participating as licensors in the program today, as well as patent owners that join as licensors in the future. Many of the new brands under license can be found at avanci.com/marketplace.

Avanci has transformed the way companies share technology by licensing intellectual property from dozens of different patent owners in a single transaction, at fixed rates, paid once for the lifetime of the product. By streamlining the technology sharing process, Avanci provides IoT companies with an efficient and transparent way to access the wireless technology needed for connected products.

Avanci Welcomes Toyota as a Licensee

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Toyota joins Avanci’s essential patent marketplace for connected vehicles

 

Today, Avanci announced that it has signed a patent license agreement with Toyota Motor Corporation. Toyota’s connected vehicles are now licensed to the 2G, 3G, and 4G essential patents of the 51 licensors that participate in Avanci’s automotive licensing program today, as well as others that join as licensors in the future.

“We are delighted to welcome Toyota, a company striving to raise the quality and availability of mobility worldwide, to Avanci. We thank the entire Toyota team for their collaboration towards this agreement.” said Kasim Alfalahi, founder and chief executive officer of Avanci.

Avanci has transformed the way companies share technology by licensing intellectual property from many different patent holders in a single transaction, at fixed rates, paid once for the lifetime of the vehicle. By streamlining the technology sharing process, Avanci provides automotive manufacturers with an efficient and transparent way to access the wireless technology needed for their connected vehicles. With more than 80 participating automotive brands, over 100 million connected vehicles on the world’s roads are covered by an Avanci license.

Avanci Signs License Agreement with Nissan

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Nissan joins Avanci’s essential patent marketplace for connected vehicles

 

Today, Avanci announced that it has signed a patent license agreement with Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

“We are pleased to welcome Nissan, a company focused on driving innovation to enrich people’s lives, to Avanci,” said Kasim Alfalahi, founder and chief executive officer of Avanci.

Connected vehicles from Nissan including the Infiniti brand are now licensed to the 2G, 3G, and 4G essential patents owned by the 51 licensors that participate in Avanci’s 4G connected vehicles program, as well as licensors who join the program in the future.

Avanci has transformed the way companies share technology by licensing intellectual property from many different patent holders in a single transaction, at fixed rates, paid once for the lifetime of the vehicle. By streamlining the technology sharing process, Avanci provides automakers with an efficient and transparent way to access the cellular technology needed for connected vehicles. With more than 80 participating automotive brands, over 100 million connected vehicles on the world’s roads are covered by an Avanci license.