Hanchel assists in the prosecution of U.S. and foreign patent applications for clients in technology industries. She has experience assisting with the prosecution of patents across a range of technical fields including radio frequency systems, MEMS devices, biometric technology, media guide systems, semiconductor fabrication and electric vehicles.

Hanchel was formerly a technical advisor with a boutique intellectual property law firm where she primarily assisted with the prosecution of foreign and domestic patent applications for a variety of technologies. She gained industrial experience working as a systems engineer with Northrop Grumman where she developed and tested transceiver systems in unmanned aerial surveillance vehicles.