Adeia Inc.

Roles and Responsibilities

Role of the Compensation Committee

The Compensation Committee oversees our executive compensation program, including the review and approval of compensation for our NEOs. In designing and implementing the various components of our 2025 executive compensation program, the Compensation Committee considered market and industry practices and trends and input from the Compensation Committee’s independent compensation consultant and management, as well as the impact of our compensation program on our financial results. While the Compensation Committee considers all factors in its deliberations, it places no formal weighting on any one factor. The Compensation Committee retains the authority under our Incentive Compensation Program to authorize bonus payments to our NEOs that are less than the bonus payments that would otherwise be awarded based on our achievement of the performance goals established for the plan.

The Compensation Committee gathered data on our CEO’s performance through several channels, including qualitative and quantitative assessments of the Company’s performance, discussions with other members of the management team and discussions with other members of our Board.

Each Compensation Committee meeting ordinarily includes an executive session without members of our management team present. For additional information about the responsibilities of the Compensation Committee, please see the section titled “Board and Committees of the Board”.

Role of the Compensation Committee’s Consultant

The Compensation Committee retained Compensia, a national compensation consulting firm, to assist it in the determination of the key elements of our executive compensation program. See discussion in the “Setting Executive Compensation” section below for a discussion regarding the 2025 compensation peer group. Compensia provided an analysis to the Compensation Committee with respect to competitive market practices and the amounts and nature of compensation paid to executive officers in similar organizations. Compensia also advised on, among other things, structuring our various compensation programs and understanding competitive levels of base salary, short-term incentive compensation and long-term incentive compensation payable to our executive officers.

Compensia reports to and is accountable to the Compensation Committee and may not conduct any other work for us without the authorization of the Compensation Committee. Compensia did not provide any services to us in 2025 beyond its engagement as an advisor to the Compensation Committee on executive and Board compensation matters. After review and consultation with Compensia, the Compensation Committee has determined that Compensia is independent and there is no conflict of interest resulting from retaining Compensia currently or during the year ended December 31, 2025. In reaching these conclusions, the Compensation Committee considered the factors set forth in Exchange Act Rule 10C-1 and the applicable Nasdaq listing standards.

Role of the Chief Executive Officer

To aid the Compensation Committee in making its 2025 compensation determinations, our CEO, provided recommendations to the Compensation Committee regarding the compensation of all executive officers, excluding himself. Each NEO other than our CEO, in turn, participated in an annual performance review with our CEO to provide input about their contributions to our success for the period being assessed.

For purposes of our annual and long-term incentive compensation programs, corporate performance goals for 2025 awards were based on the Company’s 2025 financial plan as approved by our Board. Our CEO, after discussions with the management team, then recommended a subset of these goals to the Compensation Committee as the corporate performance goals underlying our Incentive Compensation Program and performance-based equity awards. We believe that the achievement of these performance goals is based on the successful efforts and contributions of our NEOs.

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Setting Executive Compensation

The Compensation Committee reviews a competitive market analysis of compensation levels, as well as the compensation practices and financial performance of comparable companies, typically, at least annually, in connection with its annual review of our executive compensation program. This analysis provides the necessary background to the Compensation Committee to ensure that the compensation opportunities established for our executive officers are competitive with market practices and trends and that actual compensation paid to our executive officers is appropriately aligned with our performance in the past year.

Peer Group

Compensia worked with the Compensation Committee to identify a peer group of companies that were representative of the type of companies with which we may compete with for executive talent to be used in determining the target annual compensation opportunities for our NEOs. In selecting peer companies, the Compensation Committee considered a number of targeted criteria designed to reflect our business structure. Given the limited number of directly comparable companies from a business perspective, the criteria were expanded in some cases to include companies that the Compensation Committee considered to be a close fit in terms of business focus and/or with which we might compete for executive talent. As a result, some companies may not satisfy all of the selection criteria. The companies in our 2025 compensation peer group were selected based on the following criteria:

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Industry: Companies in the application software, systems software, semiconductor, advertising, transaction and payment processing, media, semiconductor, audio and imaging technology, IP licensing, software and other technology sectors.

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Revenue: Companies with revenue that were 0.3x to 3.0x our last four quarter’s revenue.

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Market Capitalization: Companies with market capitalizations that reflect the differences in our business model as an IP and technology licensing company, which would not be accurately reflected if we selected peer companies based solely on annual revenue. We selected companies with market capitalizations that were generally within a range of 0.25x to 4.0x our market capitalization.

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Geography Location: Companies based in the U.S. with an emphasis on firms headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Following its review in July 2024, the Compensation Committee made one change to our peer group, adding Getty Images Holdings.

The Compensation Committee may make adjustments to our compensation peer group as necessary to ensure companies included continue to meet the criteria outlined above.

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Market Survey Data

While the compensation peer group is maintained for executive compensation and performance reference purposes, the compensation data drawn from that source is limited to publicly available information and therefore may not contain sufficient data points to establish meaningful market comparisons for all executive officers. Consequently, the competitive market analysis used by the Compensation Committee may include data on executive positions beyond what is generally available in public filings. For purposes of the 2025 competitive market analysis, subsets of the Radford McLagan Compensation Survey were used to evaluate the compensation for some of our executive officers. Specifically, the Compensation Committee received a custom report of survey results reflecting an expanded group of companies including our compensation peer group and other companies that generally fit the above financial selection criteria.

The Compensation Committee believes that by utilizing both publicly available peer group data and the survey data from published surveys, it is able to develop the best set of robust competitive data reasonably available for use in making compensation decisions. The Compensation Committee, when making compensation decisions for our NEOs, evaluates an analysis based on both the publicly available peer group data and the survey data to ensure that the total compensation opportunities of our NEOs is fair, reasonable, and falls within the Company’s guidelines.

Experience and Performance Factors

Based on the objectives outlined above, the Compensation Committee strives to set target total direct compensation opportunities at competitive levels for the markets in which we compete for executive talent and that are appropriate for the skills, experience and performance of each individual. However, the Compensation Committee does not establish compensation levels based solely on the basis of a competitive market analysis. The Compensation Committee also relies on the business judgment of its members after reviewing our performance and carefully evaluating each NEO’s individual performance during the year, leadership qualities, business responsibilities, tenure with the Company, current compensation arrangements and long-term potential to enhance stockholder value. The Compensation Committee does not guarantee that any NEO will receive a specific market-derived compensation level.

In addition, the Compensation Committee has taken the approach of determining the mix of compensation elements, such as base salary, target annual cash incentive opportunities and equity awards, on an individual basis. The Compensation Committee allocates target total direct compensation between cash and equity compensation based on a number of objective and subjective factors, including competitive market practices, the role and responsibilities of the individual executive officer, and the nature of the behaviors the incentives are intended to motivate. The Compensation Committee’s philosophy is to balance compensation between long-term and short-term compensation, cash and non-cash compensation, and to take into account the roles and responsibilities of the individual executive officer.

Impact of 2025 “Say-on-Pay” Vote

We held our most recent “say-on-pay” vote in 2025 and over 98% of the votes case on such proposal were voted in favor of the compensation of our NEOs. The Compensation Committee will continue to take into account future stockholder advisory votes on named executive officer compensation and other relevant market developments affecting executive officer compensation to determine whether any subsequent changes to our executive compensation program and policies are warranted to reflect stockholder concerns or to address market developments.

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