Acquisition of Deepwell IP Portfolio Completed

Quest subsidiary Deepwell IP LLC today announced the completion of its acquisition of a number of US and international patents.

Acquired as part of the Company's portfolio purchase from Intellectual Ventures Assets 181 LLC and Intellectual Ventures Assets 174 LLC in January 2022, the Deepwell IP LLC portfolio is comprised as follows.

Certain of the patents relate generally to the manufacture and operation of integrated circuits. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention relate to: 1) selectively coupling Voltage feeds to body bias Voltage in an integrated circuit device; 2) routing body-bias voltage to the MOSFETS (metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors).

Certain other patents in the portfolio relate generally to method and system for conservatively managing store capacity available to a processor issuing stores including but not limited to the utilization of a counter mechanism, whereas the counter mechanism is incremented or decremented based on the occurrence of particular events.

Quest CEO Jon Scahill commented, "the Deepwell IP assets are our seventh portfolio acquisition since we secured our $27m capital facility. We look forward to continued deployment of the capital facility in 2022 as we continue to build out our diversified portfolio of compelling IP assets to manage."

You can find a list of the Portfolio Assets comprising the Deepwell IP Portfolio on our Deepwell page.

Acquisition of Tyche Licensing Portfolio Completed

Quest subsidiary Tyche Licensing LLC today announced the completion of its acquisition of a number of US patents.

Acquired as part of the Company's portfolio purchase from Intellectual Ventures Assets 181 LLC and Intellectual Ventures Assets 174 LLC in January 2022, the Tyche Licensing LLC portfolio relates generally to symmetric inducting devices incorporated in integrated circuits and in particular to an integrated circuit having symmetric inducting device with a ground shield.

Quest CEO Jon Scahill commented, "the acquired Tyche Licensing assets are the latest deployment of our $27m capital facility. We continue to work hard to identify new assets to supplement our growing stable of IP assets under management."

You can find a list of the Portfolio Assets comprising the Tyche Licensing Portfolio on our Tyche page.

Acquisition of Daedalus Blue Portfolio Completed

Quest subsidiary Taasera Licensing LLC (“TLL”) today announced the acquisition of a portfolio of network security patents from Daedalus Blue LLC (“DBL”). The portfolio consists of 22 United States patents and 2 foreign patents.

The original assignees include International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”), Internet Security Systems, Inc. (“ISS”) and Fiberlink Communications Corporation (“Fiberlink”). ISS and Fiberlink were acquired by IBM in 2006 and 2013, respectively. In September 2019, IBM divested over 500 United States patent assets, as well as a number of foreign counterparts in Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, to Daedalus Group, and affiliate of DBL.

Pursuant to the acquisition agreement, DBL is entitled to a portion of the net proceeds from monetization of the TLL portfolio.

Quest CEO Jon Scahill commented, "the acquired Daedalus Blue assets complement the existing Taasera portfolio recently acquired using our $27m capital facility. With the ever-increasing importance of network security, we are excited by the strength of the enhanced Taasera Portfolio."

You can find a list of the Portfolio Assets comprising the Taasera Portfolio on our Taasera page.