A US jury on Friday ordered Apple Inc to cover more than $234 million in damages for integrating its microchip technology into a number of the iPhones and iPads without permission of the firm to the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm.

The sum was less than the $400 million the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) was asserting in damages following the jury on Tuesday said its patent was infringed by Apple for enhancing the operation of computer central processing units.

WARF commended the verdict and said it was significant to safeguard the creations of the university from unauthorised use. “This selection is very good news,” said WARF managing director Carl Gulbrandsen in a statement.

The jury was contemplating whether the A7, A8 and A8X central processing units, seen in the iPhone 5s, 6 and 6 Additionally, along with several variants of the iPad, of Apple violated the patent.

A lot of the dispute over damages had to do with whether a particular part of the processors which were put in apparatus sold abroad, rather than in America, additionally of Apple broken the WARF patent. The jurors discovered that they did.

Apple had sought to significantly restrict its responsibility, claiming before jurors that WARF deserved after suing that business in 2008 over an identical patent less than the $110 million the foundation settled with Intel Corp.

WARF uses some of the income it produces to support research in the school, doling out more than $58 million in grants this past year, according to its web site.