- International families
- 2652015 to 2024
- Leading country
- United States2.3× the next
- All families
- 859home filings included
- Over five years
- Rising2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families by country of origin and the year of the earliest filing, 2000 to 2025; 2025 is a part year, still filling in. International families are those for which protection was sought beyond one country.
Volume
International patent families in the capability, by the year of the earliest filing.
Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google
Share by country
Each country's share of the year's international families, in per cent: the capability's five largest countries of origin, 2015 to 2024, and the rest of the world.
Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google
Country leaderboard
International patent families, 2015 to 2024, by country of origin. Growth compares the latest five full years with the five before.
Ten largest
United States
South Korea
Germany
Israel
United Kingdom
China
Japan
France
Türkiye
Australia
68
29
23
23
22
17
14
14
9
8
| 2000 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 68 | 25.7% | 0.8× | 201 | |
| 2 | South Korea | 29 | 10.9% | 1.4× | 207 | |
| 3 | Germany | 23 | 8.7% | 3.6× | 35 | |
| 4 | Israel | 23 | 8.7% | 1.3× | 27 | |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 22 | 8.3% | 1.4× | 30 | |
| 6 | China | 17 | 6.4% | 0.5× | 257 | |
| 7 | Japan | 14 | 5.3% | 0.8× | 15 | |
| 8 | France | 14 | 5.3% | 0.8× | 14 | |
| 9 | Türkiye | 9 | 3.4% | – | 9 | |
| 10 | Australia | 8 | 3.0% | 1.0× | 9 | |
| 11 | Sweden | 6 | 2.3% | 5.0× | 7 | |
| 12 | Finland | 5 | 1.9% | – | 5 | |
| 13 | Canada | 4 | 1.5% | 3.0× | 9 | |
| 14 | Brazil | 3 | 1.1% | 0.5× | 3 | |
| 15 | Switzerland | 2 | 0.8% | 1.0× | 2 | |
| 16 | Austria | 2 | 0.8% | 1.0× | 2 | |
| 17 | Spain | 2 | 0.8% | 0.0× | 3 | |
| 18 | Singapore | 2 | 0.8% | 1.0× | 2 | |
| 19 | Russia | 2 | 0.8% | – | 3 | |
| 20 | Taiwan | 1 | 0.4% | 0.0× | 2 | |
| 21 | Italy | 1 | 0.4% | 0.0× | 2 | |
| 22 | India | 1 | 0.4% | – | 3 | |
| 23 | New Zealand | 1 | 0.4% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 24 | South Africa | 1 | 0.4% | – | 1 | |
| 25 | Belgium | 0 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 26 | Poland | 0 | 0.0% | – | 2 | |
| 27 | Saudi Arabia | 0 | 0.0% | – | 1 |
Applicants
The largest applicants by international patent families, 2015 to 2024: across the world, then within each of the five countries with the most families in Battlefield Aviation & Uncrewed Systems. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.
Global
265 international families
BAE SYSTEMS PLC · United Kingdom
SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO LTD · China
BOEING CO · United States
MBDA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH · Germany
SARCOS CORP · United States
DARTS CO LTD · South Korea
15
8
5
5
5
4
United States
68 international families
BOEING CO
SARCOS CORP
AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORP
RAYTHEON CO
AEROVIRONMENT INC
BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC
5
5
3
3
2
2
South Korea
29 international families
DARTS CO LTD
YOON SUNG WOOK
HANWHA CORP
OH BYEONG HU
ARGOSDYNE CO LTD
CT ADVANCED META MAT
4
3
2
2
1
1
Germany
23 international families
MBDA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
DIEHL DEFENCE GMBH & CO KG
Donaustahl GmbH
AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE GMBH
ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GMBH
Alpine Eagle GmbH
5
3
2
1
1
1
Israel
23 international families
ISRAEL AEROSPACE IND LTD
IMI SYSTEMS LTD
AIROBOTICS LTD
ARIK SHETRIT
ARYE RAYBEE
ASSAF RUBANENKO
4
2
1
1
1
1
United Kingdom
22 international families
BAE SYSTEMS PLC
ALFORD IP LTD
ARMSTRONG NEIL ROCKCLIFFE
AUTONOMOUS DEVICE LTD COMPANY
AUTONOMOUS DEVICES LTD
CROSS JAMES EDWARD
15
1
1
1
1
1
Similar capabilities
The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Battlefield Aviation & Uncrewed Systems, 2015 to 2024: the families counted in both as a share of those counted in either. Each card shows its five largest countries.
National Security
Air Strike & Interdiction
8.6% shared · 39 families in both
United States
United Kingdom
Türkiye
Germany
South Korea
45
40
29
23
15
National Security
Control of the Air
8.0% shared · 58 families in both
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Türkiye
France
176
57
50
43
41
National Security
Integrated Air & Missile Defence
5.6% shared · 36 families in both
Germany
United States
Japan
Israel
United Kingdom
92
75
47
41
28
National Security
Counter-Uncrewed & Low-Altitude Defence
5.5% shared · 47 families in both
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Israel
156
135
72
56
50
National Security
Long-Range Strike
3.7% shared · 39 families in both
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Israel
278
159
88
77
44
Strategic Infrastructure
Military Bases & Installations
2.9% shared · 51 families in both
United States
Germany
South Korea
United Kingdom
Japan
353
218
111
100
84
National Security
Land Fires
2.5% shared · 41 families in both
United States
Germany
France
United Kingdom
South Korea
357
232
127
113
93
Critical Technology
Uncrewed & Collaborative Systems
1.6% shared · 265 families in both
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
Germany
3,995
3,332
3,111
1,460
958
National Security
Strategic Lift & Mobility
1.1% shared · 10 families in both
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
China
Spain
286
73
43
38
38
Crosswalk
How Battlefield Aviation & Uncrewed Systems is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 5 Cooperative entries in all. A patent family counts when any of its codes, in either scheme and at any office, falls under one of them. Codes since retired are placed under the entries that replaced them.
| Entry | Title in the scheme | Why it is chosen | CPC codes | IPC codes | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B64U2101/15 | UAVs specially adapted for particular uses or applications for conventional or electronic warfare | Uncrewed aircraft adapted for conventional or electronic warfare | 4 | none | 2,945 |
| B64U20/10 | Constructional aspects of UAVs for stealth, e.g. reduction of cross-section detectable by radars | Uncrewed aircraft built for stealth | 1 | 1 | 441 |
| B64U2101/16 | UAVs specially adapted for particular uses or applications for conventional or electronic warfare for controlling, capturing or immobilising other vehicles | Left out |
CPC and IPC codes are the codes in use on patent documents, at any office, that fall under the entry. Documents is the larger of the two schemes' counts of documents carrying one of them. An entry with no IPC codes can be told apart only in the Cooperative scheme.
The Cooperative codes in use that count towards Battlefield Aviation & Uncrewed Systems: 5 codes on 3,386 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.
| Code | Title | Under entry | How placed | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B64U2101/15 | UAVs specially adapted for particular uses or applications for conventional or electronic warfare | B64U2101/15 | In the scheme | 1,619 |
| B64U2101/18 | UAVs specially adapted for particular uses or applications for conventional or electronic warfare for dropping bombs; for firing ammunition | B64U2101/15 | In the scheme | 699 |
| B64U20/10 | Constructional aspects of UAVs for stealth, e.g. reduction of cross-section detectable by radars | B64U20/10 | In the scheme | 441 |
| B64U2101/19 | UAVs specially adapted for particular uses or applications for conventional or electronic warfare for use as targets or decoys | B64U2101/15 | In the scheme | 332 |
| B64U2101/17 | UAVs specially adapted for particular uses or applications for conventional or electronic warfare for detecting, disrupting or countering communications | B64U2101/15 | In the scheme | 295 |
Other capabilities in Land Power
- Combined Arms Manoeuvre
- Land Fires
- Special Operations & Irregular Warfare