Where does Hannibal IP LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hannibal IP LLC ranks #8,401 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 Hannibal IP LLC hold?

Hannibal IP LLC holds 38 US utility patents granted between 2022 and 2025, spanning 4 technology areas.

What is Hannibal IP LLC's Innovation Score?

Hannibal IP LLC has an Innovation Score of 48.9 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 Hannibal IP LLC focus on?

Hannibal IP LLC's top technology area is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks) with 38 patents, ranking #447 of 5,904 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 4 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hannibal IP LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Insufficient historical data is available to calculate a velocity trend for Hannibal IP LLC.

What does claim depth mean for Hannibal IP LLC's patents?

Hannibal IP LLC's patents average 15.3 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 Hannibal IP LLC 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

Hannibal IP LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 38 granted patents across 4 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2022–2025. 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: H04W (Wireless Communication Networks).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hannibal ranks #8,401 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 38 patents across 4 technology areas.

#8,401
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 16%
by Innovation Score (48.9/100): 15.3
avg claims per patent

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R8401 · US Corporation #8,401 · 38 grants

GRANTS-SMALL · UPPER-Q · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-NARROW · INNOV-PAR · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · SPAN-YRS · BOOK-RICH

GRANTS-SMALL 38 grants
UPPER-Q #8,401/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Hannstouch Solution…
CPC-NARROW H04W · 4 areas
INNOV-PAR 48.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 15.3 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
SPAN-YRS 2022–2025 · 4y
BOOK-RICH 9/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Hannstouch Solution Incorporated (±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 Hannibal’s 48.9 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 12.7 pts (26%) Velocity 20.0 pts (41%) Breadth 7.1 pts (14%) Claim depth 9.2 pts (19%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Alpha EC Industries… · near

49
Bioverativ Therapeut… · near

49
Hannibal IP · this assignee

49
Max-Delbrück-Centrum… · near

49
Production Resource… · near

49
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hannibal's Innovation Score is 48.9/100 (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 Hannibal?

Each dot is one of Hannibal’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). Hannibal’s own 15.3 claims/patent is ABOVE the 13.1 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hannibal's grants concentrate

Hannibal IP LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 4 CPC subclasses with 100% of grants classified under H04W (Wireless Communication Networks). Peak complete grant year is 2024 (13 grants) versus a trough of 7 in 2023. By volume, Hannibal sits between Hannstouch Solution Incorporated and Ipla Holdings Inc..

Hannibal's three-year grant acceleration

Hannibal IP LLC shows 32 grants in 2022–2024 against only 0 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.

Hannstouch Soluti…

38
Hatco

38
Heckler & Koch

38
Husco Automotive…

38
Hinkley Lighting

38
Indium

38
Innowireless

38
Ipla Holdings

38
Hannibal IP ◀

38

What this shows Hannibal holds 38 patents at rank #8,405, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hannibal

By rank, the assignees closest to #8,405 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04W (Wireless Communication Networks)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hannibal, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), Hannibal ranks #447 of 5,904 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (49 here).

Production Resource Group, L.L.C. 49 Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft 49 Bioverativ Therapeutics Inc. 49 Alpha EC Industries 2018 S.A.R.L. 49

Hannibal'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 · 2022–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2022–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Hannibal IP LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2022	12	31.6%
2023	7	18.4%
2024	13	34.2%
2025partial year	6	15.8%

Which technologies does Hannibal IP LLC patent most?

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 38

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 26

Y02D - Climate Change Mitigation Technologies IN Information AND Communication Technologies [ICT], I.E. Information AND Communication Technologies Aiming AT THE Reduction OF Their OWN Energy USE 9

H04B - Transmission 8

Top 4 of 4 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Hannibal IP LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hannibal IP LLC's lead technology class is H04W (Wireless Communication Networks), 100% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04W
Ranked #8,401 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hannibal IP LLC against Hannstouch Solution Incorporated, an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 48.9/100 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

Every figure on PlainPatent is rendered directly from USPTO source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on USPTO source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 2026.