Kodak has already found buyers for their patents.

Earlier on Habré it was already reported that Kodak patents (and there are quite a few of them), most likely, will be sold to a group of companies, which include Google and Apple. Today it became known that the buyers did exist, which was indicated in the Kodak press release . The amount that the company will gain when selling a package of patents is $ 525 million.

It is worth noting that in the group of buying companies there is not only Google and Apple. This group also includes HTC, Huawei, RIM, Samsung, Fujifilm, Facebook, as well as Adobe, Microsoft. There are 12 customers altogether, and the purchase is joint. A group of buyers, so to speak, formed the company Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corporation.
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Part of the money from the agreed 525 million will be paid by the companies participating in the transaction, and part by the organizer of the transaction, RPX Corporation. As far as one can understand, each of the companies participating in the purchase receives rights not only to patents that are related to the processing of digital images, but also to some other patents.

The resulting $ 525 million will be spent by Kodak on paying off debts. As mentioned earlier, Kodak wanted to gain more than a billion dollars for its patents, but because of the practice of licensing its technologies, these patents are already used by many technology companies. So you have to be content with a “modest” amount of $ 525 million.