Company Overview

Company Background

Khyber Technologies Corporation was founded in 1991 with intent to create the next generation of handheld computing products. Its founder Raj Kumar had previously led the R&D of Telxon Corporation (TLXN, now owned by Motorola though acquisitions) for 11 years of rapid growth and an IPO and developed several trend-setting products of the portable data entry industry and recommended a wireless technology acquisition, which later developed into a WiFi leading supplier and spun off in another IPO and subsequently acquired by Cisco.

The Company determined early on that innovative form-and-function would be needed to deliver new capabilities as technology-convergence took hold in the field of portable computer and smart-phone devices. Accordingly, while doing business as a custom product development company, Khyber created a portfolio of patented form-n-function techniques for handheld digital devices. It began licensing its intellectual property (IP) from this portfolio to its customers and licensees, whose list has grown to include UPS, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Casio, Danger Inc, Symbol Technologies (SBL, now owned by Motorola), Telxon Corporation, PSC Inc., Socket Communications (SCKT), and others.

In recent years, the Company has reorganized itself to concentrate on supplying licenses of its IP.

About Khyber's IP Portfolio

Khyber owns over 50 US and international, issued and pending patents. Its key patents are in the area of PDAs, cell phones, and smart phones. Some of the early patents are for vertical applications of handheld computers for the enterprise, requiring employment of wide-area and/or local-area wireless networks, barcodes, RFID, smart cards, and magnetic-strip cards.

Khyber’s IP strategically packages convergent technologies into new form-and-functions. The patents teach unique and superior product-designs that increase user-productivity and reduce the customer’s cost of owning and maintaining the equipment. As a result, the products of Khyber’s design leapfrog over competition, are trend-setting, and often create new categories.

Licensing and Employing Khyber IP

To reap the benefits of the Khyber patents, licensees can repackage their current products into a desired form-factor taught by the Khyber patents. In this respect, besides providing patent licenses, Khyber can provide other levels of support to its clients, in order to facilitate the development of the licensed products. The support can be in the form of development of working demo-units, prototypes, or even full engineering development and manufactured units. The level and the nature of such support are entirely dependent upon the needs of the licensees.

To provide such services, Khyber taps into independent resources – local and international – for engineering as well as manufacturing work. Depending upon the need, the chief scientist Raj Kumar can work with the clients’ in-house engineering, marketing, and/or sales organizations. Khyber does not develop its own products, thereby eliminating possible conflicts of interest with the clients on an organizational as well as individual level.

It is Khyber’s intent to employ its IP in ways that will deliver optimum value to its clients. Khyber will work with prospective clients to prepare a suitable license that includes rights to desired Khyber patents and designs from the Khyber portfolio. Depending upon availability, licenses with limited exclusivity can be packaged for a combination of patents and designs, which will give the Khyber clients an added advantage in the market to launch their licensed products.