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

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Xeikon Prepress N.V. ranks #44,143 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 Prepress N.V. hold?

Xeikon Prepress N.V. holds 6 US utility patents granted between 2016 and 2024, spanning 10 technology areas.

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

Xeikon Prepress N.V. has an Innovation Score of 36.1 out of 100 (top 47% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

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

Xeikon Prepress N.V.'s recent grant velocity is +400% 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 Prepress N.V.'s patents?

Xeikon Prepress N.V.'s patents average 13.7 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 Xeikon Prepress 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 Prepress N.V.

Q: What technology areas does Xeikon Prepress N.V. focus on?

Xeikon Prepress N.V.'s top technology area is G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;) with 4 patents, ranking #228 of 595 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 10 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 6 granted patents across 10 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2016–2024. 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: G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Xeikon ranks #44,143 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 6 patents across 10 technology areas.

#44,143
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 47%
by Innovation Score (36.1/100): 13.7
avg claims per patent: +400%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R44143 · Foreign Corporation #44,143 · 6 grants

GRANTS-MICRO · LOWER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-THIN · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MICRO 6 grants
LOWER-Q #44,143/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Xactiv
CPC-FOCUS G03F · 10 areas
INNOV-THIN 36.1/100
CLAIMS-RICH 13.7 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-SURGE +400% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Xactiv, 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 Xeikon’s 36.1 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 6.7 pts (19%) Velocity 10.0 pts (28%) Breadth 11.2 pts (31%) Claim depth 8.2 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Xeikon Prepress · this assignee

36
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Xeikon's Innovation Score is 36.1/100 (top 47% 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 13.7 claims/patent is at or below the 14.7 median for these volume peers. Volume here does not track with deeper claims; several lower-volume peers claim more thoroughly per patent.

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

Where Xeikon's grants concentrate

Xeikon Prepress N.V. is a focused PatentsView assignee: 10 CPC subclasses with 66.7% of grants classified under G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;). Peak complete grant year is 2022 (2 grants) versus a trough of 1 in 2016. By volume, Xeikon sits between Xactiv, Inc. and Xiamen Renhe Sports Equipment Co., Ltd..

Xeikon's three-year grant acceleration

Xeikon Prepress N.V. shows 3 grants in 2022–2024 against only 2 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.

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Xeeva

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What this shows Xeikon holds 6 patents at rank #44,135, 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 #44,135 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces)

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)

36 Top 47% higher than 53% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2016–2024

Grants by year

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

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Xeikon Prepress N.V. patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2016	1	16.7%
2020	1	16.7%
2021	1	16.7%
2022	2	33.3%
2024	1	16.7%

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

G03F - Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR; 4

B41C - Processes FOR THE Manufacture OR Reproduction OF Printing Surfaces 4

B41F - Printing Machines OR Presses 3

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 3

B41N - Printing Plates OR Foils ; Materials FOR Surfaces Used IN Printing Machines FOR Printing, Inking, Damping, OR THE LIKE; Preparing Such Surfaces FOR USE AND Conserving Them 3

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 2

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 2

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 1

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 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

Top 10 of 10 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 Prepress N.V.'s patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Xeikon Prepress N.V.'s lead technology class is G03F (Photomechanical Production OF Textured OR Patterned Surfaces, e.g. FOR Printing, FOR Processing OF Semiconductor DEVICES; Materials THEREFOR; Originals THEREFOR; Apparatus Specially Adapted THEREFOR;), 66.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G03F
Ranked #44,143 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Xeikon Prepress N.V. against Xactiv, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 36.1/100 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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