Where does Xerox Corporation rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Xerox Corporation ranks #97 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 Xerox Corporation hold?

Xerox Corporation holds 3,772 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 249 technology areas.

What is Xerox Corporation's Innovation Score?

Xerox Corporation has an Innovation Score of 69.2 out of 100 (top 1% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Xerox Corporation's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Xerox Corporation's recent grant velocity is -59% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). Grant activity has slowed relative to earlier years.

What does claim depth mean for Xerox Corporation's patents?

Xerox Corporation's patents average 16.7 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 Xerox Corporation 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

Xerox Corporation

Q: What technology areas does Xerox Corporation focus on?

Xerox Corporation's top technology area is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors) with 781 patents, ranking #6 of 598 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 249 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 3,772 granted patents across 249 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: 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, Xerox ranks #97 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 3,772 patents across 249 technology areas.

#97
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 1%
by Innovation Score (69.2/100): 16.7
avg claims per patent: -59%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R97 · US Corporation #97 · 3,772 grants

GRANTS-LARGE · TOP-DECILE · NEAR-PEER · CPC-BROAD · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-DROP · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-LARGE 3.8K grants
TOP-DECILE #97/49,997
NEAR-PEER Massachusetts…
CPC-BROAD B41J · 249 areas
INNOV-STRONG 69.2/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-DROP -59% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (±12 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 Xerox’s 69.2 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 28.4 pts (41%) Velocity 5.7 pts (8%) Breadth 25.0 pts (36%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (14%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
BIC Violex Single… · near

69
Delta (Shanghai) · near

69
MediaTek Singapore Pte · near

69
Xerox · this assignee

69
Ticona · near

69
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Xerox's Innovation Score is 69.2/100 (top 1% 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 Xerox?

Each dot is one of Xerox’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). Xerox’s own 16.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.4 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

How Xerox's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Xerox Corporation received 1,074 grants versus 2,590 in 2015–2019 (-59% equal-window velocity, below median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2015 at 812 grants and bottomed in 2022 at 167. Lead class B41J accounts for 20.7% of the portfolio across 249 subclasses. Volume neighbours: Deere & Company (#93) and Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. (#101).

Xerox's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Xerox Corporation moved from 740 to 636 grants (0.86x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #1,629. See the growth leaderboard.

Deere &

3,926
Renesas

3,882
Fanuc

3,797
Massachusetts Ins…

3,784
Xerox ◀

3,772
Bayerische Motore…

3,749
KIA

3,712
Sandisk

3,712
Fuji Xerox

3,629

What this shows Xerox holds 3,772 patents at rank #97, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Xerox

By rank, the assignees closest to #97 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B41J (Typewriters)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Xerox, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B41J (Typewriters), Xerox ranks #6 of 598 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (69 here).

MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. 69 Ticona LLC 69 Delta Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. 69 BIC Violex Single Member S.A. 69

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.7 here).

Mahle International GmbH 16.7 avg DRÄGER Safety AG & Co. Kgaa 16.7 avg Beijing Goldwind Science & Creation Windpower Equipment Co., Ltd. 16.7 avg Nouryon Chemicals International B.V. 16.7 avg

Xerox's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

69 Top 1% higher than 99% 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.

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Xerox Corporation patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	812	21.5%
2016	642	17.0%
2017	475	12.6%
2018	359	9.5%
2019	302	8.0%
2020	242	6.4%
2021	196	5.2%
2022	167	4.4%
2023	232	6.2%
2024	237	6.3%
2025partial year	108	2.9%

Which technologies does Xerox Corporation patent most?

B41J - TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors 781

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 724

G03G - ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; Magnetography 620

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 614

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 410

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 384

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 342

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 275

B41M - Printing, Duplicating, Marking, OR Copying PROCESSES; Colour Printing, 230

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 205

G06K - Graphical Data Reading ; Presentation OF DATA; Record CARRIERS; Handling Record Carriers 199

C08K - Use of inorganic or non-macromolecular organic substances as compounding ingredients 174

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 155

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 153

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 145

Top 15 of 249 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

Xerox Corporation's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Xerox Corporation's lead technology class is B41J (TYPEWRITERS; Selective Printing Mechanisms, i.e. Mechanisms Printing Otherwise Than From A FORME; Correction OF Typographical Errors), 20.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B41J
Ranked #97 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Xerox Corporation against Deere & Company, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 69.2/100 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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