On Friday, October 05, 2012, Cradle IP (plaintiff) launched a suit against Altera Corporation (defendant) for patent infringement in the U.S. District Court of Delaware (case no. 1:12-cv-01282).

Cradle is in the business of offering  Networked Video Surveillance Servers. Cradle’s products also include complete Networked Video Servers along with associated system software, firmware and video content analysis software. Altera is a manufacturer of PLDs, reconfigurable complex digital circuits. Altera's main products are Stratix, Arria and Cyclone series FPGAs, MAX series CPLDs, HardCopy series ASICs and Quartus II design software.

The patent US6212591 involved in this suit is currently assigned[i] to Cradle IP (source: MaxVal’s Assignment Database). The patent entitled Configurable I/O Circuitry Defining Virtual Ports was issued on April 03, 2001 and expires[ii] on April 02, 2019.

According to the complaint, defendant’s computer chip (field-programmable gate array) products including Stratix III, Stratix IV, Stratix V, Arria II GX, and Arria II GZ allegedly infringe the ‘591 patent.

                 Stratix III                                                                                                         Stratix IV

                 Stratix V                                                                                                        Arria II GX

Arria II GZ

The plaintiff in the past has filed a suit against Texas Instruments and the details are as listed below:

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