A Texas automotive electronics maker has sued six major foreign automakers in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, claiming that millions of cars they produced infringed on a patent for integrating music players and multimedia devices into their vehicles stereo systems.
In five separate suits filed before U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap of Marshall, Blitzsafe Texas alleges that Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, Kia and Volkswagen all infringed on its invention, which allows third-party audio devices such as iPods to be controlled using a car’s radio controls. Previously, such devices could not be integrated into a car stereo and could only be connected by a wire.
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