Where does Xaar Technology Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Xaar Technology Limited ranks #6,860 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 Xaar Technology Limited hold?

Xaar Technology Limited holds 49 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2025, spanning 16 technology areas.

What is Xaar Technology Limited's Innovation Score?

Xaar Technology Limited has an Innovation Score of 42.7 out of 100 (top 30% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Xaar Technology Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Xaar Technology Limited's recent grant velocity is +146% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Xaar Technology Limited's patents?

Xaar Technology Limited's patents average 17.8 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 Xaar Technology Limited 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 Foreign Corporation

Xaar Technology Limited

Q: What technology areas does Xaar Technology Limited focus on?

Xaar Technology Limited's top technology area is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors) with 45 patents, ranking #47 of 598 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 16 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 49 granted patents across 16 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2025. 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: B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Xaar ranks #6,860 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 49 patents across 16 technology areas.

#6,860
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 30%
by Innovation Score (42.7/100): 17.8
avg claims per patent: +146%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R6860 · Foreign Corporation #6,860 · 49 grants

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

GRANTS-SMALL 49 grants
UPPER-Q #6,860/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Varel International…
CPC-FOCUS B41J · 16 areas
INNOV-PAR 42.7/100
CLAIMS-RICH 17.8 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +146% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Varel International IND., L.L.C. (±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 Xaar’s 42.7 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 13.5 pts (32%) Velocity 4.3 pts (10%) Breadth 14.1 pts (33%) Claim depth 10.7 pts (25%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Gema Switzerland · near

43
Mahle Behr & KG · near

43
Taoglas Group Holdings · near

43
Xaar Technology · this assignee

43
Sharp Life Science… · near

43
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Xaar's Innovation Score is 42.7/100 (top 30% 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 Xaar?

Each dot is one of Xaar’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). Xaar’s own 17.8 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.5 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Xaar's grants concentrate

Xaar Technology Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 16 CPC subclasses with 91.8% of grants classified under B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (11 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Xaar sits between Varel International IND., L.L.C. and A-dec, Inc..

Xaar's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Xaar Technology Limited moved from 23 to 15 grants (0.65x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). See the growth leaderboard.

Varel Internation…

49
W&H Dentalwerk Bü…

49
Walter

49
Welldoc

49
Yamazaki Mazak

49
Yamato Scale

49
Xaar Technology ◀

49
39F USA

48
A-dec

48

What this shows Xaar holds 49 patents at rank #6,860, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Xaar

By rank, the assignees closest to #6,860 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41J (Typewriters)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Xaar's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Xaar, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B41J (Typewriters), Xaar ranks #47 of 598 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (43 here).

Gema Switzerland GMBH 43 Mahle Behr GmbH & Co. KG 43 Taoglas Group Holdings Limited 43 Sharp Life Science (EU) Limited 43

Xaar's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

43 Top 30% higher than 70% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2016–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Xaar Technology Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	2	4.1%
2017	2	4.1%
2018	3	6.1%
2019	6	12.2%
2020	11	22.4%
2021	6	12.2%
2022	5	10.2%
2023	3	6.1%
2024	7	14.3%
2025partial year	4	8.2%

Which technologies does Xaar Technology Limited patent most?

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 45

H10N - Electric Solid-state Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 7

C04B - Lime, MAGNESIA; SLAG; CEMENTS; Compositions Thereof, e.g. Mortars, Concrete OR Like Building MATERIALS; Artificial Stone ; Ceramics ; REFRACTORIES; Treatment OF Natural Stone 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

C01P - Indexing Scheme Relating TO Structural AND Physical Aspects OF Solid Inorganic Compounds 2

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 2

B29L - Indexing Scheme Associated With Subclass B29c, Relating TO Particular Articles 2

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 2

H03K - Pulse Technique 1

C01G - Compounds Containing Metals NOT Covered BY Subclasses C01d OR C01f 1

B33Y - Additive Manufacturing, i.e. Manufacturing OF Three-dimensional [3-D] Objects BY Additive Deposition, Additive Agglomeration OR Additive Layering, e.g. BY 3-D Printing, Stereolithography OR Selective Laser Sintering 1

G01R - Measuring Electric VARIABLES; Measuring Magnetic Variables 1

H03H - Impedance Networks, e.g. Resonant CIRCUITS; Resonators 1

B81B - Microstructural Devices OR Systems, e.g. Micromechanical Devices 1

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 1

Top 15 of 16 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Xaar Technology Limited's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Xaar Technology Limited's lead technology class is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors), 91.8% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41J
Ranked #6,860 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Xaar Technology Limited against Varel International IND., L.L.C., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 42.7/100 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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