Where does Hulu, LLC rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Hulu, LLC ranks #1,866 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 Hulu, LLC hold?

Hulu, LLC holds 215 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 19 technology areas.

What is Hulu, LLC's Innovation Score?

Hulu, LLC has an Innovation Score of 51.9 out of 100 (top 11% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Hulu, LLC focus on?

Hulu, LLC's top technology area is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television) with 152 patents, ranking #147 of 5,951 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 19 CPC subclasses total.

Is Hulu, LLC's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Hulu, LLC'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 Hulu, LLC's patents?

Hulu, LLC'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 Hulu, 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

Hulu, LLC

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 215 granted patents across 19 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: H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television).

Compiled by PlainPatent · May 15, 2026

RSS updates for this company

Explore the portfolio See the ranking

The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Hulu ranks #1,866 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 215 patents across 19 technology areas.

#1,866
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 11%
by Innovation Score (51.9/100): 19.9
avg claims per patent: +25%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R1866 · US Corporation #1,866 · 215 grants

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

GRANTS-MID 215 grants
TOP-DECILE #1,866/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH Chicony
CPC-FOCUS H04N · 19 areas
INNOV-PAR 51.9/100
CLAIMS-RICH 19.9 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-UP +25% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd. (±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 Hulu’s 51.9 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 18.6 pts (36%) Velocity 5.9 pts (11%) Breadth 15.4 pts (30%) Claim depth 11.9 pts (23%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Advanced Liquid Logic · near

52
Harnischfeger · near

52
Hulu · this assignee

52
J C Bamford Excavators · near

52
Medivators · near

52
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Hulu's Innovation Score is 51.9/100 (top 11% 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 Hulu?

Each dot is one of Hulu’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). Hulu’s own 19.9 claims/patent is ABOVE the 14.9 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

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

Where Hulu's grants concentrate

Hulu, LLC is a focused PatentsView assignee: 19 CPC subclasses with 70.7% of grants classified under H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television). Peak complete grant year is 2020 (30 grants) versus a trough of 13 in 2018. By volume, Hulu sits between EGALAX_EMPIA Technology Inc. and Zoetis Services LLC.

Hulu's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Hulu, LLC moved from 73 to 65 grants (0.89x 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 #1,516. See the growth leaderboard.

Egalax_empia Tech…

216
Pantech

216
Chicony

215
Ge-hitachi Nuclea…

215
Saab AB

215
Ticona

215
Westerngeco L L C

215
Zoetis Services

215
Hulu ◀

215

What this shows Hulu holds 215 patents at rank #1,866, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Hulu

By rank, the assignees closest to #1,866 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in H04N (Pictorial Communication)

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

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Hulu, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In H04N (Pictorial Communication), Hulu ranks #147 of 5,951 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (52 here).

J. C. Bamford Excavators Limited 52 Harnischfeger Technologies, Inc. 52 Advanced Liquid Logic, Inc. 52 Medivators Inc. 52

Similar claim depth

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

Biomet Sports Medicine, LLC 19.9 avg Heartflow, Inc. 19.9 avg The Chinese University of Hong Kong 19.9 avg Nokia 19.9 avg

Hulu's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

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

52 Top 11% higher than 89% of 49,997 US assignees

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more US assignees. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

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

Hulu, LLC patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	23	10.7%
2016	19	8.8%
2017	14	6.5%
2018	13	6.0%
2019	23	10.7%
2020	30	14.0%
2021	20	9.3%
2022	21	9.8%
2023	25	11.6%
2024	19	8.8%
2025partial year	8	3.7%

Which technologies does Hulu, LLC patent most?

H04N - Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television 152

G06F - Electric Digital Data Processing 50

H04L - Transmission OF Digital Information, e.g. Telegraphic Communication 48

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 25

G06V - Image OR Video Recognition OR Understanding 17

G06N - Computing Arrangements Based ON Specific Computational Models 14

G06T - Image Data Processing OR Generation, IN General 11

G11B - Information Storage Based ON Relative Movement Between Record Carrier AND Transducer 4

G09G - Arrangements OR Circuits FOR Control OF Indicating Devices Using Static Means TO Present Variable Information 3

H04W - Wireless Communication Networks 2

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 2

A63B - Apparatus FOR Physical Training, Gymnastics, Swimming, Climbing, OR FENCING; Ball GAMES; Training Equipment 2

H03M - CODING; DECODING; Code Conversion IN General 2

A63F - Card, Board, OR Roulette GAMES; Indoor Games Using Small Moving Playing BODIES; Video GAMES; Games NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 2

G08B - Signalling OR Calling SYSTEMS; Order TELEGRAPHS; Alarm Systems 1

Top 15 of 19 technology areas

More on this record

Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

View all rankings → How is Innovation Score calculated?

What to do with this data

Hulu, LLC's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Hulu, LLC's lead technology class is H04N (Pictorial Communication, e.g. Television), 70.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore H04N
Ranked #1,866 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Hulu, LLC against EGALAX_EMPIA Technology Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 51.9/100 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.