Where does Xero Limited rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Xero Limited ranks #4,141 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 Xero Limited hold?

Xero Limited holds 87 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 24 technology areas.

What is Xero Limited's Innovation Score?

Xero Limited has an Innovation Score of 57.2 out of 100 (top 5% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Xero Limited's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Xero Limited's recent grant velocity is +25% 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 Xero Limited's patents?

Xero Limited's patents average 19.9 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 Xero 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

Xero Limited

Q: What technology areas does Xero Limited focus on?

Xero Limited's top technology area is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR) with 27 patents, ranking #500 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 24 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 87 granted patents across 24 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: G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Xero ranks #4,141 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 87 patents across 24 technology areas.

#4,141
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 5%
by Innovation Score (57.2/100): 19.9
avg claims per patent: +25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R4141 · Foreign Corporation #4,141 · 87 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-FOCUS · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-FRNCORP · VEL-UP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-SMALL 87 grants
TOP-DECILE #4,141/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Ultradent Products
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 24 areas
INNOV-PAR 57.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
TYPE-FRNCORP Foreign Corp
VEL-UP +25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Ultradent Products, 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 Xero’s 57.2 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 15.5 pts (27%) Velocity 12.5 pts (22%) Breadth 17.3 pts (30%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (21%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
The Strategic Coach · near

57
Tianma Microelectron… · near

57
Xero · this assignee

57
AGC Flat Glass… · near

57
Idexx Laboratories · near

57
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Xero's Innovation Score is 57.2/100 (top 5% 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 Xero?

Each dot is one of Xero’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). Xero’s own 19.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.7 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Xero's grants concentrate

Xero Limited is a focused PatentsView assignee: 24 CPC subclasses with 31% of grants classified under G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (19 grants) versus a trough of 2 in 2016. By volume, Xero sits between Ultradent Products, Inc. and American Regent, Inc..

Xero's three-year grant acceleration

Xero Limited shows 30 grants in 2022–2024 against only 16 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.

Ultradent Products

87
University of Ver…

87
VAT Holding

87
Winview

87
Yara Internationa…

87
Zodiac Pool Syste…

87
Xero ◀

87
ABB Technology Oy

86
American Regent

86

What this shows Xero holds 87 patents at rank #4,141, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Xero

By rank, the assignees closest to #4,141 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Xero, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Xero ranks #500 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (57 here).

The Strategic Coach Inc. 57 Tianma Microelectronics Co., Ltd. 57 AGC Flat Glass North America, Inc. 57 Idexx Laboratories Inc. 57

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (19.9 here).

Dematic Corp. 19.9 avg Qualtrics, LLC 19.9 avg SiFive, Inc. 19.9 avg Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA) 19.9 avg

Xero's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

57 Top 5% higher than 95% 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

Xero Limited patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	6.9%
2016	2	2.3%
2017	11	12.6%
2018	7	8.0%
2019	6	6.9%
2020	7	8.0%
2021	3	3.4%
2022	5	5.7%
2023	6	6.9%
2024	19	21.8%
2025partial year	15	17.2%

Which technologies does Xero Limited patent most?

G06Q - Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory Purposes, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 27

D06F - Laundering, Drying, Ironing, Pressing OR Folding Textile Articles 26

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 14

C11D - Detergent COMPOSITIONS; USE OF Single Substances AS DETERGENTS; Soap OR SOAP-MAKING; Resin SOAPS; Recovery OF Glycerol 11

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 9

C14C - Chemical Treatment OF Hides, Skins OR Leather, e.g. Tanning, Impregnating, FINISHING; Apparatus THEREFOR; Compositions FOR Tanning 7

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 6

D06L - Dry-cleaning, Washing OR Bleaching Fibres, Filaments, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Made-up Fibrous GOODS; Bleaching Leather OR Furs 5

D06P - Dyeing OR Printing TEXTILES; Dyeing Leather, Furs OR Solid Macromolecular Substances IN ANY Form 4

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 3

F26B - Drying Solid Materials OR Objects BY Removing Liquid Therefrom 3

Y02B - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies Related TO Buildings, e.g. Housing, House Appliances OR Related End-user Applications 3

C02F - Treatment OF Water, Waste Water, Sewage, OR Sludge 3

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 2

D06M - Treatment, NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere IN Class D06, OF Fibres, Threads, Yarns, Fabrics, Feathers OR Fibrous Goods Made From Such Materials 2

Top 15 of 24 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

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

Xero Limited's lead technology class is G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR Administrative, Commercial, Financial, Managerial OR Supervisory PURPOSES; Systems OR Methods Specially Adapted FOR Administrative,), 31% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #4,141 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Xero Limited against Ultradent Products, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 57.2/100 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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