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Google’s smart home system Nest does not infringe Profectus Technology’s digital picture frame patent, a Texas jury has ruled.

A company fighting to assert its intellectual property rights said two of Google LLC's Nest smart-home products infringe its digital picture frame patent, while the tech giant argued the patent isn't even valid, as the case passed into a Texas federal jury's hands Tuesday.

A Western District of Texas jury on Wednesday cleared Google LLC of allegations that two of its Nest smart-home products infringe a digital picture frame patent owned by Profectus Technology LLC and determined that the asserted claims of the patent-at-issue are invalid.

Google "conservatively" owes nearly $3 million for its Nest smart-home products that allegedly infringe a digital picture frame patent, a Texas federal jury heard from the patent owners' damages expert as their company rested its case on Monday.

Google LLC's Nest smart-home products infringe a digital picture frame patent, a Texas federal jury heard Friday when the co-owner of the patent testified that he and his brother tried to get Google to license the technology before resorting to litigation.