DHAKA: A US jury has ordered technology giant Apple to pay more than $234m in damages for patent infringement.

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the patent licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the verdict was important to guard its inventions from unauthorized use, reports the BBC.

The jury had earlier decided that Apple incorporated patented microchip technology into some iPhones and iPads without permission.

Apple said it would appeal.

The company declined to comment further.

The amount was less than the foundation had claimed. It had originally sought as much as $862m.

The sum was lower in part because the judge ruled that Apple had not wilfully infringed the patent.

University of Wisconsin-Madison computer sciences professor Gurindar Sohi, one of the inventors of the microchip technology - designed to boost the performance of computer processors - was in the federal court in Madison, Wisconsin, for the decision.

‘For Dr Sohi, I hope you felt that your invention was vindicated,’' US district judge William Conley said.

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