Where does Xeikon Manufacturing N.V. rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Xeikon Manufacturing N.V. ranks #15,766 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 Xeikon Manufacturing N.V. hold?

Xeikon Manufacturing N.V. holds 19 US utility patents granted between 2017 and 2025, spanning 18 technology areas.

What is Xeikon Manufacturing N.V.'s Innovation Score?

Xeikon Manufacturing N.V. has an Innovation Score of 48.5 out of 100 (top 16% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Xeikon Manufacturing N.V. focus on?

Xeikon Manufacturing N.V.'s top technology area is G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography) with 10 patents, ranking #58 of 196 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 18 CPC subclasses total.

Is Xeikon Manufacturing N.V.'s patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Xeikon Manufacturing N.V.'s recent grant velocity is +250% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Xeikon Manufacturing N.V.'s patents?

Xeikon Manufacturing N.V.'s patents average 18.6 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 Xeikon Manufacturing N.V. 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

Xeikon Manufacturing N.V.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 19 granted patents across 18 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2017–2025. 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: G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Xeikon ranks #15,766 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 19 patents across 18 technology areas.

#15,766
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.5/100): 18.6
avg claims per patent: +250%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R15766 · Foreign Corporation #15,766 · 19 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · MID-PACK · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 19 grants
MID-PACK #15,766/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Waukesha Bearings
CPC-FOCUS G03G · 18 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.5/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.6 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +250% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Waukesha Bearings Corporation (±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 Xeikon’s 48.5 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 10.3 pts (21%) Velocity 12.0 pts (25%) Breadth 15.0 pts (31%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Xeikon Manufacturing · this assignee

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Xeikon's Innovation Score is 48.5/100 (top 16% 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 Xeikon?

Each dot is one of Xeikon’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). Xeikon’s own 18.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Xeikon's grants concentrate

Xeikon Manufacturing N.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 18 CPC subclasses with 52.6% of grants classified under G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography). Peak complete grant year is 2023 (5 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2018. By volume, Xeikon sits between Waukesha Bearings Corporation and Yahee Trading Limited.

Xeikon's three-year grant acceleration

Xeikon Manufacturing N.V. shows 9 grants in 2022–2024 against only 5 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.

Waukesha Bearings

19
Wilkins IP

19
Wobbleworks

19
Workover Solutions

19
Xiamen Ghgm Indus…

19
Xris

19
Xactware Solutions

19
Yahee Trading

19
Xeikon Manufactur… ◀

19

What this shows Xeikon holds 19 patents at rank #15,760, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Xeikon

By rank, the assignees closest to #15,760 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03G (Electrography)

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

Xeikon's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

49 Top 16% higher than 84% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2017–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2017–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Xeikon Manufacturing N.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2017	3	15.8%
2018	1	5.3%
2020	4	21.1%
2021	1	5.3%
2022	1	5.3%
2023	5	26.3%
2024	3	15.8%
2025partial year	1	5.3%

Which technologies does Xeikon Manufacturing N.V. patent most?

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 10

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 9

C09D - Coating Compositions, e.g. Paints, Varnishes OR LACQUERS; Filling PASTES; Chemical Paint OR INK REMOVERS; INKS; Correcting FLUIDS; WOODSTAINS; Pastes OR Solids FOR Colouring OR PRINTING; USE OF Materials Therefor 5

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 4

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 3

D21H - Pulp COMPOSITIONS; Preparation Thereof NOT Covered BY Subclasses D21c OR D21D; Impregnating OR Coating OF PAPER; Treatment OF Finished Paper NOT Covered BY Class B31 OR Subclass D21G; Paper NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

C09K - Materials FOR Miscellaneous Applications, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 2

D21C - Production OF Cellulose BY Removing Non-cellulose Substances From Cellulose-containing MATERIALS; Regeneration OF Pulping LIQUORS; Apparatus Therefor 2

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 1

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 1

C07C - Acyclic OR Carbocyclic Compounds 1

C07F - Acyclic, Carbocyclic OR Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Elements Other Than Carbon, Hydrogen, Halogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur, Selenium OR Tellurium 1

G01L - Measuring Force, Stress, Torque, Work, Mechanical Power, Mechanical Efficiency, OR Fluid Pressure 1

G01N - Investigating OR Analysing Materials BY Determining Their Chemical OR Physical Properties 1

C08F - Macromolecular Compounds Obtained BY Reactions Only Involving Carbon-to-carbon Unsaturated Bonds 1

Top 15 of 18 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

Xeikon Manufacturing N.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Xeikon Manufacturing N.V.'s lead technology class is G03G (ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography), 52.6% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03G
Ranked #15,766 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Xeikon Manufacturing N.V. against Waukesha Bearings Corporation, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.5/100 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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