Where does X-Card Holdings, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), X-Card Holdings, LLC ranks #8,147 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does X-Card Holdings, LLC hold?

X-Card Holdings, LLC holds 40 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is X-Card Holdings, LLC's Innovation Score?

X-Card Holdings, LLC has an Innovation Score of 45.7 out of 100 (top 23% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does X-Card Holdings, LLC focus on?

X-Card Holdings, LLC's top technology area is G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers) with 40 patents, ranking #66 of 1,953 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is X-Card Holdings, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

X-Card Holdings, LLC's recent grant velocity is +33% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). The company is maintaining or growing its granted-patent output.

What does claim depth mean for X-Card Holdings, LLC's patents?

X-Card Holdings, LLC's patents average 19.7 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the X-Card Holdings, LLC patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

X-Card Holdings, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 40 granted patents across 19 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, X-card ranks #8,147 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 40 patents across 19 technology areas.

#8,147
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 23%
by Innovation Score (45.7/100): 19.7
avg claims per patent: +33%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8147 · US Corporation #8,147 · 40 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 40 grants
UPPER-Q #8,147/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Velocys
CPC-FOCUS G06K · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 45.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +33% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Velocys, Inc. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How X-card’s 45.7 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 12.8 pts (28%) Velocity 5.6 pts (12%) Breadth 15.4 pts (34%) Claim depth 11.8 pts (26%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Ovivo · near

46
PS4 Luxco r l · near

46
Qualitrol · near

46
X-Card Holdings · this assignee

46
Endotronix · near

46
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows X-card's Innovation Score is 45.7/100 (top 23% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for X-card?

Each dot is one of X-card’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). X-card’s own 19.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 9.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

X-card vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

Where X-card's grants concentrate

X-Card Holdings, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (6 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2024. By volume, X-card sits between Velocys, Inc. and Zygo Corporation.

X-card's three-year grant acceleration

X-Card Holdings, LLC shows 11 grants in 2022–2024 against only 13 in 2019–2021. That prior window is too thin for a growth multiple (rename and spin-out assignees look artificially high when the baseline is near zero), so PlainPatent withholds a ranked acceleration claim here.

Velocys

40
Veran Medical

40
Volta Charging

40
Walter R Tucker E…

40
Zojirushi

40
Zepp

40
Zing Semiconductor

40
Zygo

40
X-card Holdings ◀

40

What this shows X-Card holds 40 patents at rank #8,145, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near X-Card

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,145 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06K (Graphical Data Reading)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in X-Card's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for X-Card, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06K (Graphical Data Reading), X-Card ranks #66 of 1,953 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (46 here).

Ovivo Inc. 46 PS4 Luxco S.a.r.l. 46 Qualitrol Company LLC 46 Endotronix, Inc. 46

X-card's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

46 Top 23% higher than 77% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

View data table

X-Card Holdings, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	5	12.5%
2016	2	5.0%
2017	2	5.0%
2018	2	5.0%
2019	4	10.0%
2020	5	12.5%
2021	4	10.0%
2022	6	15.0%
2023	4	10.0%
2024	1	2.5%
2025partial year	5	12.5%

Which technologies does X-Card Holdings, LLC patent most?

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 40

B32B - Layered Products, i.e. Products Built-up OF Strata OF Flat OR Non-flat, e.g. Cellular OR Honeycomb, Form 21

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 18

H05K - Printed CIRCUITS; Casings OR Constructional Details OF Electric APPARATUS; Manufacture OF Assemblages OF Electrical Components 16

H01L - Semiconductor Devices NOT Covered BY Class H10 12

C08L - Compositions OF Macromolecular Compounds 12

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 7

F21V - Functional Features OR Details OF Lighting Devices OR Systems THEREOF; Structural Combinations OF Lighting Devices With Other Articles, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 4

F21Y - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses F21k, F21l, F21s and F21v, Relating TO THE Form OR THE Kind OF THE Light Sources OR OF THE Colour OF THE Light Emitted 4

F21L - Lighting Devices OR Systems Thereof, Being Portable OR Specially Adapted FOR Transportation 4

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 3

B29C - Shaping OR Joining OF PLASTICS; Shaping OF Material IN A Plastic State, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; After-treatment OF THE Shaped Products, e.g. Repairing 3

B29K - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclasses B29b, B29c OR B29d, Relating TO Moulding Materials OR TO Materials FOR ; Moulds, ; Reinforcements, Fillers OR Preformed Parts, e.g. Inserts 3

B42D - BOOKS; Book COVERS; Loose LEAVES; Printed Matter Characterised BY Identification OR Security FEATURES; Printed Matter OF Special Format OR Style NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Devices FOR USE Therewith AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Movable-strip Writing OR Reading Apparatus 3

H01F - MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; Selection OF Materials FOR Their Magnetic Properties 3

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

X-Card Holdings, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

X-Card Holdings, LLC's lead technology class is G06K (Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06K
Ranked #8,147 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare X-Card Holdings, LLC against Velocys, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 45.7/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent, US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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