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S3G entered into a worldwide patent license agreement with OYO Hotels, Inc. (OYO USA), Oravel Stays Limited (OYO India), Oravel Stays Singapore Private Limited (OYO Singapore), OYO Rooms and Hospitality UK Ltd. (OYO UK), and OYO Mountainia UK Limited (OYO Mountainia) for S3G's patent portfolio.

OYO, an unicorn valued at over $10 Billion US Dollars, is the world’s leading chain of hotels, homes, and spaces. The portfolio combines fully operated real estate comprising more than 44,000 hotels with over 1.2 million rooms. Through its vacation homes business, the company offers travelers and city dwellers access to over 125,000 homes around the world under the OYO Home and other brands. OYO today operates in over 800 cities in 80 countries, including the U.S., Europe, U.K., India, Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Japan.

The license agreement includes patent licenses to S3G’s patent portfolio in major markets around the world where OYO operates, including the United States, India, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia and the Philippines. The license agreement covers OYO’s software systems, including its widely-used mobile software applications that are used by consumers worldwide to search for and book hotel reservations.

The S3G patents licensed by OYO include Indian Patent No. 328489; Brazilian Patent No. 1120120015109; Mexican Patent No. 317989; Indonesian Patent No. W00201200112; Philippines Patent No. 1-2012-500065; and U.S. Patent Nos. 9,304,758; 9,081,897; 9,940,124; 8,572,571; 10,387,140; 10,261,774, 10,831,468 and 11,210,082. The patents are directed to efficient network communications, including over low bandwidth wireless networks, between various hardware and software systems, including mobile apps. The technology addressed a long felt need by users and the technology industry as a whole to enable higher performance and higher speed communications even over slow wireless networks. Some of the patents also cover location-based systems, data analytics and data visualizations, cloud computing and virtualized processor systems.

In licensing the S3G patents, OYO and its Affiliates stated that "challenging the validity of any of the Licensed Patents would be difficult" and OYO and its Affiliates licensed the patents "in part because of the high burden of proving invalidity of any of the Licensed Patents."

UniKey Technologies, the world's largest smart access control platform provider, licensed S3G's patent portfolio.

Phil Dumas, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of UniKey Technologies, Inc. (“UniKey”) described UniKey’s experience with S3G's patent portfolio, stating:

Bryj, the first AI-powered platform that unifies mobile app development, user engagement, and growth marketing capabilities, signed a multi-million-dollar, non-exclusive patent license agreement with S3G.

A press release issued by Bryj states: "The licensed patent portfolio, recognized across the mobile ecosystem for its technical importance, covers foundational technologies for highly efficient network communication between mobile devices and servers, dynamic delivery of content and app logic, and cross-device synchronization. These methods underpin many modern mobile app experiences used by global brands today."

The press release further states: "After legal and technical due diligence on the patent portfolio, the patents were determined valid and represent significant and enabling technological advances in modern mobile applications. In addition to its US patents, S3G also has foreign counterpart patents that are directed to the same subject matter and are registered in key markets around the world, including India, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, and the Philippines."

The CEO of Bryj, James Colgan, who previously at Microsoft scaled Outlook Mobile from 0 to 60 million monthly active users, explained that licensing S3G's patents enable "the most advanced AI-powered mobile development and growth capabilities," stating:

SourceTrace, a global leader in providing digital solutions to agriculture and food businesses, licensed S3G's patents.

In licensing the patents, SourceTrace stated that it used independent legal and technical experts and counsel to perform analysis of the Licensed Patents. SourceTrace also stated that "the Licensed Patents are directed to and claim critical distributed computing technologies, including highly efficient network communications between one or more mobile devices and/or one or more servers ... [and] the technology embodied in the Licensed Patents has achieved commercial success."

SourceTrace continued to state that "the original patent application was filed in the United States and as a Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent application, and that each of the granted foreign counterpart patents of the original granted US patent (U.S. Patent No. 8,572,571) are directed to and claim the same subject matter."

SourceTrace further stated that: "(i) each of the Licensed Patents is valid and constitute patentable subject matter under each applicable country’s patent laws; (ii) many other companies have unsuccessfully attempted to challenge the validity of one or more of the Licensed Patents; and, (iii) challenging the validity of any of the Licensed Patents would be extremely difficult."