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 address our carbon handprint and align our cutting-edge research and innovation with our corporate sustainability commitments.
Our Mission
Rooted in values of ingenuity, collaboration, accountability, and persistence, we remain committed to fostering an environment where innovation thrives and employees are empowered to grow. We believe that inclusivity remains a critical catalyst for innovation, and purpose-driven innovation is key to developing technologies that serve a broad and global user base. This commitment guides everything we do, from attracting and nurturing top-tier talent to driving advancements that enhance energy efficiency and environmental responsibility.
Our Impact
Our impact is reflected in both the excellence of our people as well as the far-reaching achievements of our research and innovation. Over the past year, InterDigital set new records in revenue and technological milestones while deepening our focus on innovation that advances our environmental stewardship.
We’ve continued to advance research and innovation that addresses our carbon handprint, by making the technologies we enable more energy efficient. Our engineers play a critical role in shaping a greener digital future by contributing their expertise to innovate a wide array of technologies that make our networks more capable, impactful and energy efficient.
Our Technology Solutions Empower a More Sustainable Future
- Enabling Energy-Efficient Wireless Communications: As we work on cutting-edge wireless innovation and new connectivity capabilities in 6G, our research in net-zero communication enables devices to harvest power from their local environment and eliminates the need for conventional batteries, while opening the door for new applications in low-power environments.
- Improving Reliability and Connectivity: Our research in sidelink communication and innovation around AI-powered federated learning (FL) address complex challenges to reduce network dependency and power usage and allow for more seamless connectivity in low-coverage areas and new opportunities for autonomous vehicles and remote healthcare applications.
- Optimizing Spectrum Use: Our research in breakthrough technologies in intelligent antenna arrays, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), reconfigurable holographic surfaces (RHS), and beamforming help dynamically shape wireless signal paths to reduce the power requirements of network infrastructure to make wireless communications more energy conscious and cost effective.
- Designing Sustainable Sensing: InterDigital is leading research in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) as a fundamental feature of 6G empowering exciting use cases like vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication, industrial automation, and smart cities. By optimizing sensing operations, our research, and specifically our sensing intelligence algorithms, have resulted in architectural improvements that optimize wireless systems’ data collection and anticipated power requirements.
- Pioneering More Sustainable Media: As TVs account for roughly 67% of energy consumption across video entertainment devices, InterDigital’s award-winning Pixel Value Reduction (PVR) solution helps optimize the brightness of pixels on a device display to reduce energy consumption without compromising the perceived video quality. By applying AI expertise to InterDigital’s Deep PVR solution, devices can achieve a reduction of up to 15% in a display’s power consumption, which becomes exponentially significant if applied across billions of displays worldwide.
- Maintaining Standards Leadership for a Greener Industry: From leadership roles in pre-standards and standards bodies like ETSI, ATIS, 3GPP, MPEG, and SMPTE, our engineers bolster their sustainable innovations with advocacy and leadership in standards and pre-standards bodies that promote energy efficiency in both wireless and video technologies.
Looking ahead, InterDigital will continue to harness the power of our cutting-edge research and innovation in wireless, video, and AI to pioneer sustainable solutions and shape the future of telecommunications and media.
We invite you to explore our 2025 Sustainability Report and join us in building a more energy-efficient and environmentally responsible world.