Xerox announces rise in new patents

Xerox has announced that it received 706 US patents in 2009 - a rise of 16% on 12 months earlier.

The figure has earned the company a place among the world's top 25 corporate patent recipients for 2009.

The company said that PARC, the Palo Alto Research Center, and XMPie were among the 706 patents - many of which were used in newly-released innovative products and services. It is thought that other patents among the list will be central to the next generation of developments.

Sophie Vandebroek, Xerox chief technology officer and president of the Xerox Innovation Group said that it was crucial to customers' success that the firm continues to innovate. She claimed that current innovations underpin future successes - saying that pioneering developments are at the core of what Xerox does.

Since its inception, the firm - based in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA, - has received approximately 55,000 global patents.

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