‘Tis the season for business divorces, apparently, with Xperi joining Technicolor as another medium-sized technology vendor announcing plans to drive a wedge between licensing and products in the name of independent scale. Faultline breathed a palpable sigh of relief upon reading the news. Long before TiVo was acquired by Xperi and merged with the licensing force, we have been crying out for the TiVo of old to rear its once-innovative head – one that has been concealed behind a business famous for patent infringement cases (or infamous, depending on which side of the courtroom you sit). We have covered Technicolor’s split in a separate story this week, and while similarities can be drawn between the two structural shake-ups, Xperi is…