“We are the guardians of the future” defended InterDigital CTO Henry Tirri, in response to Faultline’s criticism of his company’s distinct lack of PR presence relating to the Technicolor R&I assets acquired last year. In all fairness, we told InterDigital that lying low was fair game for a company with such a patent-heavy business model. Still though, we were not in agreement. The cellular technology specialist completed the acquisition of Technicolor’s visual technology research division in July last year, along with some 30,000 patents and a prolific engineering workforce. Naturally, we were chomping at the bit to get our teeth into something juicy soon to emerge from a business which InterDigital itself told us it could run more proficiently than…