Texas Federal Jury Orders Kioxia to Pay Viasat $229M for Infringing Flash-Memory ECC Patent
Summary
A jury in the Western District of Texas found Kioxia infringed Viasat's US Patent 8,615,700 covering error-correction methods in flash memory products, awarding $229,025,021 as a running royalty for infringement through March 30, 2026. Viasat originally sued in 2021 targeting ECC capabilities in Kioxia's flash-based SSDs, which increasingly feed AI training and inference stacks.
Originally reported by bloomberglaw.com
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