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Commitments and Contingencies
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies

Note 12. Commitments and Contingencies

Indemnification

In the normal course of business, we may enter into agreements that require us to indemnify either customers or suppliers for certain risks. Although we cannot estimate our maximum exposure under these agreements, to date indemnification claims have not had a material impact on our consolidated results of operations or financial condition.

Litigation

From time to time, we are subject to various legal proceedings or claims that arise in the ordinary course of business. We accrue a liability when management believes that it is both probable that we have incurred a liability and we can reasonably estimate the amount of loss. As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, we did not have accrued contingency liabilities. The following is a description of our significant legal proceedings. Although we believe that resolving these claims, individually or in aggregate, will not have a material adverse impact on our financial statements, these matters are subject to inherent uncertainties.

Patent Infringement Claims and Counterclaims

Impinj Patent Infringement Claims Against NXP

From 2019 to 2023, we engaged in active patent litigation against our primary endpoint IC competitor, NXP Semiconductors N.V., or NXP. During this time, we filed three patent infringement lawsuits against subsidiaries of NXP in federal courts in California and Texas. In response, NXP filed a suit against us in federal court in Delaware, later transferred to Washington, countersued us in Texas, and filed three lawsuits against our subsidiary in China.

In three U.S. trials held in 2023, juries in California and Texas returned verdicts that NXP endpoint ICs infringed five of our patents that made it to trial, and juries in Washington and Texas ruled that we did not infringe any of the three patents NXP accused us in court of infringing. Also in 2023, NXP withdrew all three cases it filed against us in China.

On March 13, 2024, while additional trials were pending in the U.S., we and NXP entered into a settlement agreement, or the Settlement Agreement. Under the Settlement Agreement, NXP paid us a one-time amount of $45.0 million and agreed to make annual license fee payments, if the specified set of Indicator Patents are still in use, on April 1 of each year, effective April 1, 2024. The annual license fee is to increase by a fixed percentage each year after 2024 for the remaining term of the Settlement Agreement. We have no obligation to pay NXP under the Settlement Agreement. We have no obligation to pay NXP under the Settlement Agreement. In the agreement, we and NXP agreed to grant each other non-exclusive, worldwide patent licenses to make, have made, import, use, offer for sale and sell our respective products and services, subject to the terms of the agreement. The Settlement Agreement is to remain in force until all the valid claims of a specified set of Impinj patents, or the Indicator Patents, expire in about 2034. NXP can terminate the Settlement Agreement if it successfully designs out all valid claims of the Indicator Patents.

We allocated the consideration from the Settlement Agreement to the components of the Settlement Agreement. We recorded the $45.0 million payment in income from settlement of litigation in the condensed consolidated statements of operations in first-quarter 2024, upon receipt, and recognized the first and second annual license fees of $15.0 million and $16.0 million in revenue in second-quarter 2024 and 2025, respectively. Licensing of our intellectual property is part of our ongoing operations and therefore, we will recognize the license fee, which relates to annual usage of the license from April 1 to March 31 of each applicable year, as revenue in the second quarter of each year until the Settlement Agreement terminates.

Obligations with Third-Party Manufacturers

We manufacture products with third-party manufacturers. We are committed to purchase $28.2 million of inventory as of December 31, 2025.