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At InterDigital, our commitment to a more equitable world comes to life through the impactful work of the InterDigital Foundation, showcased in our 2025 Corporate Sustainability Report. Through focused philanthropy, the Foundation champions education and empowers our employees to make an impact. We focus our support on charities and programs, especially near our ... READ MORE

June 2025 marks a milestone in the evolution of wireless standards as industry stakeholders gather to define the scope and technologies that will shape 6G. This month, the 3GPP community convened in Prague for a plenary session to create the blueprint for the study and specifications work of Release 20 (Rel-20), an important event for the continued evolution of 5 ... READ MORE

At InterDigital, our mission is to empower new opportunities, experiences, and services through world-class innovation in wireless, video, and AI, while ensuring our work delivers positive, sustainable outcomes for operators, device makers, service providers, end users, and more. Our 2025 Sustainability Report highlights the significant strides we’ve made to addr ... READ MORE

For decades, InterDigital innovation has laid the foundation for how we connect, and is today shaping the future of 6G. Representing an entirely new way to communicate and react to the world around us, Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is a transformative technology that merges sensing and communication capabilities into a unified framework. By combinin ... READ MORE

As the telecoms industry embarks on its journey toward 6G, 2025 is proving to be a pivotal year. InterDigital is a proud sponsor of TelecomTV’s four-part “Defining 6G Networks” series, which synthesized more than 220 submissions to the 3GPP 6G workshop in Incheon, Korea, earlier this year to capture collective sentiment from vendors, operators, and the broader wi ... READ MORE

A recent ETSI report, Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC); Use Cases and Deployment Scenarios, outlines 18 compelling use cases for ISAC in 6G, each with distinct requirements and deployment contexts. As chair of the ETSI ISAC industry specification group that developed this report, I’d like to highlight a few high-impact applications that illustrate why ... READ MORE

A recent paper from InterDigital and Futuresource explores the tremendous growth of the TV and video industry over the past few decades which has resulted in more annual greenhouse gases emissions than the aerospace industry. Recent climate and weather disasters have highlighted the need for the media and entertainment industry to take on a bigger role to exempli ... READ MORE

Whether you’re a painter, a musician, a scriptwriter, a chemist, or an electrical engineer, creativity and intellectual property rights go hand-in-hand.The form of intellectual property may differ, but the guiding principle remains the same; those who create or invent should be able to enjoy exclusive rights to their invention and profit from their discovery.For ... READ MORE

Content is king, and these days, video content is more popular than ever. Whether it’s a viral video enjoyed on a social media site, a binged TV show, live sports streamed from a popular platform, or content captured from a plethora of video-enabled sensors, an estimated 80 percent of all internet traffic today is comprised of video data. Video is increasingly in ... READ MORE

In our evolving technological landscape, successful research collaboration between industry and academia requires deep technical and business relationships. I recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by Pedram Johari, Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) at Northeastern University, that explored the role o ... READ MORE

As a company of inventors, InterDigital's Inventor of the Year Award recognizes more than technical excellence, it celebrates the spirit of innovation that drives technological progress. This year, InterDigital recognized two engineers for their groundbreaking contributions shaping the future of wireless communications and video technology.Philippe Bordes and Mar ... READ MORE

As the global demand for streaming and video content continues to rise, so does the energy consumption of our viewing habits. InterDigital, a leader in wireless, video, and AI technologies, is addressing this challenge head-on with innovative solutions aimed at increasing energy efficiency while maintaining quality of experience and without compromising visual qu ... READ MORE

The growth of the streaming industry over the last decade has had a profound impact on the way we all consume video content from our favorite TV shows and movies, to a growing range of live sporting events and more.At InterDigital, we’re proud of the way our foundational innovation has enabled an entirely new industry to take shape and has allowed consumers to en ... READ MORE

As Head of Wireless Labs, I have the privilege of guiding our wireless research, innovation, and standards contributions towards the goal of enhancing and improving wireless network communications. InterDigital has been at the forefront of research and innovation shaping 6G for more than five years, and I can confidently say that the vision for 6G is clearer toda ... READ MORE

With a new year ahead of us, InterDigital experts Milind Kulkarni, Head of Wireless Lab, Lionel Oisel, Head of Video Lab, and Jaideep Chandrashekar, Head of AI Lab, share their predictions for the trends and milestones in 2025. What’s in store for wireless in 2025? Milind Kulkarni, Head of Wireless Labs 1. 5G deployments will continue with revenue focus. Op ... READ MORE

As we close out 2024, we reflect on a year of exceptional milestones, underpinned by our innovative spirit, strategic partnerships, industry leadership, and continued research in wireless, video, and AI. This newsletter spotlights InterDigital’s achievements of the past year. 2024 Spotlight on InterDigital InterDigital delivered strong financial results thr ... READ MORE

InterDigital’s Chief Licensing Officer Eeva Hakoranta was recently recognized among the 50 most influential people in IP by Managing IP. Eeva’s inclusion comes as a result of her contributions in the FRAND space and not only reflects the success she’s had as the head of InterDigital’s licensing business but also the success of the company ... READ MORE

InterDigital has been named a finalist for the 2024 Fierce Network Innovation Awards, solidifying our position as a leader in technological innovation and impact in wireless communications. As a publication, Fierce Network covers AI, automation, fixed and mobile broadband, cloud infrastructure, application modernization, security, and more and the Fierce Network ... READ MORE

This month, InterDigital celebrated more than ten years of research and innovation in Europe and our commitment to its continuation through the opening of our new office in London. The event welcomed InterDigital engineers, executives, and long-standing academic and industry partners to experience InterDigital’s research expertise and engage with the brain ... READ MORE

Each generation of cellular wireless technology evolves on roughly a 10-year timeline. Research leaders like InterDigital began planning for 6G in 2020 after the deployment of 5G’s Release 15 of 3GPP standards. With six of these releases planned for 5G, and Release 18 (5G-Advanced) already published, this means we are about “halfway there” on ou ... READ MORE

The recent report from Mario Draghi, The Future of European Competitiveness, makes for grim reading for anyone like me who is invested in Europe’s long-term economic success and status as a driver of innovation. The report offers several explanations for why the EU has failed to keep pace economically with the world’s other major powers and serves as ... READ MORE

As audio stimulates our sense of hearing and video engages our sense of sight, innovations in haptic technology are tapping into new avenues of communication to convey the sense of touch. InterDigital’s research and innovation in new media codecs and standards, particularly those related to haptic media coding and delivery, will bring new depths and sensati ... READ MORE

By the 2030s global cellular networks will be able to connect not only smartphones and other connected devices but also objects around you, opening up a new frontier in connectivity. In ten years, remote rural areas that currently don’t have any mobile reception will be connected thanks to advances in non-terrestrial networks. And, by the 2030s, improvement ... READ MORE

Open and collaborative technology standards such as 5G, Wi-Fi and advanced video compression, which are underpinned by related standard essential patents (SEPs), are the cornerstone of today’s connected world. These standards bring significant benefits but, above all, they provide new market entrants with access to ready-made technologies that open up new ... READ MORE

More than 82% of all traffic seen on the Internet corresponds to video streams and the vast majority of this video traffic consists of 2D video streams to be viewed by end users on flat displays like smartphones, TVs, tablets, and the like. Looking ahead, we expect the proportion of video traffic to increase with new devices, formats, and modalities, including vi ... READ MORE