Where does Hartford Fire Insurance Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hartford Fire Insurance Company ranks #1,240 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 Hartford Fire Insurance Company hold?

Hartford Fire Insurance Company holds 342 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 27 technology areas.

What is Hartford Fire Insurance Company's Innovation Score?

Hartford Fire Insurance Company has an Innovation Score of 55.0 out of 100 (top 7% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

Is Hartford Fire Insurance Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hartford Fire Insurance Company's recent grant velocity is +17% 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 Hartford Fire Insurance Company's patents?

Hartford Fire Insurance Company's patents average 18.7 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 Hartford Fire Insurance Company 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

Hartford Fire Insurance Company

Q: What technology areas does Hartford Fire Insurance Company focus on?

Hartford Fire Insurance Company'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 289 patents, ranking #54 of 6,520 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 27 CPC subclasses total.

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 342 granted patents across 27 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, Hartford ranks #1,240 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 342 patents across 27 technology areas.

#1,240
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 7%
by Innovation Score (55.0/100): 18.7
avg claims per patent: +17%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1240 · US Corporation #1,240 · 342 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 342 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,240/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Cox Communications
CPC-FOCUS G06Q · 27 areas
INNOV-PAR 55.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 18.7 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +17% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Cox Communications, 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 Hartford’s 55.0 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 20.2 pts (37%) Velocity 5.3 pts (10%) Breadth 18.4 pts (33%) Claim depth 11.2 pts (20%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Sodick · near

55
Clark Equipment · near

55
Hartford Fire… · this assignee

55
San Diego State… · near

55
Southern University… · near

55
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hartford's Innovation Score is 55.0/100 (top 7% 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 Hartford?

Each dot is one of Hartford’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). Hartford’s own 18.7 claims/patent is ABOVE the 15.6 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hartford's grants concentrate

Hartford Fire Insurance Company is a focused PatentsView assignee: 27 CPC subclasses with 84.5% 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 2020 (55 grants) versus a trough of 19 in 2015. By volume, Hartford sits between Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. and Parallel Wireless, Inc..

Hartford's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hartford Fire Insurance Company moved from 120 to 95 grants (0.79x 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 #1,871. See the growth leaderboard.

Oki Electric Indu…

344
SHL Medical

344
Sonoco Development

344
Cox Communications

342
Hartford Fire Ins… ◀

342
8x8

341
Cargill Incorpora…

341
Exxon Mobil Techn…

341
Parallel Wireless

340

What this shows Hartford holds 342 patents at rank #1,240, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hartford

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,240 in granted patent volume.

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

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hartford, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In G06Q (Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially…), Hartford ranks #54 of 6,520 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (55 here).

Clark Equipment Company 55 Southern University of Science and Technology 55 San Diego State University Research Foundation 55 Sodick Co., Ltd. 55

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (18.7 here).

Polaris Industries Inc. 18.7 avg Enseo, LLC 18.7 avg Imagination Technologies Limited 18.7 avg AtriCure, Inc. 18.7 avg

Hartford's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

55 Top 7% higher than 93% 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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Hartford Fire Insurance Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	19	5.6%
2016	21	6.1%
2017	33	9.6%
2018	38	11.1%
2019	39	11.4%
2020	55	16.1%
2021	26	7.6%
2022	27	7.9%
2023	40	11.7%
2024	28	8.2%
2025partial year	16	4.7%

Which technologies does Hartford Fire Insurance Company 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 289

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 119

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 72

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 42

G16H - Healthcare Informatics, i.e. Information AND Communication Technology [ICT] Specially Adapted FOR THE Handling OR Processing OF Medical OR Healthcare Data 29

H04M - Telephonic Communication 15

G07C - Time OR Attendance REGISTERS; Registering OR Indicating THE Working OF MACHINES; Generating Random NUMBERS; Voting OR Lottery APPARATUS; Arrangements, Systems OR Apparatus FOR Checking NOT Provided FOR Elsewhere 15

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 14

A61B - DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; Identification 14

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 9

G01C - Measuring Distances, Levels OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; Gyroscopic INSTRUMENTS; Photogrammetry OR Videogrammetry 8

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 7

B60W - Conjoint Control OF Vehicle Sub-units OF Different Type OR Different FUNCTION; Control Systems Specially Adapted FOR Hybrid VEHICLES; Road Vehicle Drive Control Systems FOR Purposes NOT Related TO THE Control OF A Particular Sub-unit 7

G08G - Traffic Control Systems 6

G10L - Speech Analysis Techniques OR Speech SYNTHESIS; Speech RECOGNITION; Speech OR Voice Processing TECHNIQUES; Speech OR Audio Coding OR Decoding 5

Top 15 of 27 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

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Hartford Fire Insurance Company'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,), 84.5% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore G06Q
Ranked #1,240 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hartford Fire Insurance Company against Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 55.0/100 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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