- International families
- 5182015 to 2024
- Leading country
- United States3.1× the next
- All families
- 1,557home filings included
- Over five years
- Steady2020 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
United Kingdom
Germany
Türkiye
France
Israel
China
Sweden
South Korea
Japan
176
57
50
43
41
26
20
20
17
15
| 2000 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 176 | 34.0% | 0.8× | 359 | |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 57 | 11.0% | 0.9× | 70 | |
| 3 | Germany | 50 | 9.7% | 1.1× | 70 | |
| 4 | Türkiye | 43 | 8.3% | 5.1× | 50 | |
| 5 | France | 41 | 7.9% | 0.7× | 43 | |
| 6 | Israel | 26 | 5.0% | 1.2× | 27 | |
| 7 | China | 20 | 3.9% | 0.4× | 578 | |
| 8 | Sweden | 20 | 3.9% | 0.8× | 20 | |
| 9 | South Korea | 17 | 3.3% | 3.3× | 155 | |
| 10 | Japan | 15 | 2.9% | 0.9× | 27 | |
| 11 | Italy | 13 | 2.5% | 1.2× | 17 | |
| 12 | Spain | 5 | 1.0% | 0.0× | 8 | |
| 13 | Russia | 5 | 1.0% | 1.5× | 72 | |
| 14 | Canada | 4 | 0.8% | 0.3× | 11 | |
| 15 | Taiwan | 3 | 0.6% | 0.0× | 4 | |
| 16 | Netherlands | 2 | 0.4% | 1.0× | 2 | |
| 17 | Finland | 2 | 0.4% | – | 3 | |
| 18 | Australia | 2 | 0.4% | 0.0× | 4 | |
| 19 | Belgium | 2 | 0.4% | 0.0× | 2 | |
| 20 | Brazil | 2 | 0.4% | – | 2 | |
| 21 | Switzerland | 1 | 0.2% | – | 2 | |
| 22 | Austria | 1 | 0.2% | – | 2 | |
| 23 | Singapore | 1 | 0.2% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 24 | Norway | 1 | 0.2% | 0.0× | 2 | |
| 25 | Poland | 1 | 0.2% | – | 5 | |
| 26 | New Zealand | 1 | 0.2% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 27 | Ireland | 0 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 28 | Saudi Arabia | 0 | 0.0% | – | 4 |
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 Control of the Air. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.
Global
518 international families
BAE SYSTEMS PLC · United Kingdom
BOEING CO · United States
TUSAS TURK HAVACILIK VE UZAY SANAYII ANONIM SIRKETI · Türkiye
RAYTHEON CO · United States
TUSAS TUERK HAVACILIK VE UZAY SANAYII ANONIM SIRKETI · Türkiye
GEN ELECTRIC · United States
36
30
30
24
21
20
United States
176 international families
BOEING CO
RAYTHEON CO
GEN ELECTRIC
HONEYWELL INT INC
BAE SYS INF & ELECT SYS INTEG
BOOM TECH INC
30
24
20
10
8
6
United Kingdom
57 international families
BAE SYSTEMS PLC
MBDA UK LTD
ROLLS ROYCE PLC
AIRBUS OPERATIONS LTD
BAE SYSTEMS
AIRBUS GROUP LTD
36
6
4
2
2
1
Germany
50 international families
AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE GMBH
RHEINMETALL ELECTRONICS GMBH
MBDA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
DIEHL DEFENCE GMBH & CO KG
KRAUSS MAFFEI WEGMANN GMBH & CO KG
RHEINMETALL DEFENCE ELECTRONICS GMBH
8
8
6
5
3
3
Türkiye
43 international families
TUSAS TURK HAVACILIK VE UZAY SANAYII ANONIM SIRKETI
TUSAS TUERK HAVACILIK VE UZAY SANAYII ANONIM SIRKETI
ASELSAN ELEKTRONIK SANAYI VE TICARET AS
TUSASS TURKEY AEROSPACE IND
TUSAS—TURK HAVACILIK VE UZAY SANAYII ANONIM SIRKETI
GAZI UNIV REKTORLUGU
30
21
5
3
3
2
France
41 international families
THALES SA
SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
ALKAN
ARESIA VALENTON
SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
SAFRAN NACELLES
12
10
5
2
2
2
Similar capabilities
The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Control of the Air, 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
15.5% shared · 100 families in both
United States
United Kingdom
Türkiye
Germany
South Korea
45
40
29
23
15
National Security
Battlefield Aviation & Uncrewed Systems
8.0% shared · 58 families in both
United States
South Korea
Germany
Israel
United Kingdom
68
29
23
23
22
Critical Technology
Advanced Propulsion & Hypersonic Systems
6.8% shared · 149 families in both
United States
France
Germany
Japan
China
732
229
172
130
104
National Security
Land Fires
6.1% shared · 112 families in both
United States
Germany
France
United Kingdom
South Korea
357
232
127
113
93
National Security
Long-Range Strike
4.6% shared · 59 families in both
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Israel
278
159
88
77
44
National Security
Counter-Uncrewed & Low-Altitude Defence
4.2% shared · 47 families in both
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Israel
156
135
72
56
50
National Security
Integrated Air & Missile Defence
4.0% shared · 36 families in both
Germany
United States
Japan
Israel
United Kingdom
92
75
47
41
28
National Security
Strategic Lift & Mobility
2.9% shared · 34 families in both
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
China
Spain
286
73
43
38
38
Strategic Infrastructure
Military Bases & Installations
2.2% shared · 45 families in both
United States
Germany
South Korea
United Kingdom
Japan
353
218
111
100
84
Crosswalk
How Control of the Air is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B64D7/00 | Arrangement of military equipment, e.g. armaments, armament accessories or military shielding, in aircraft; Adaptations of armament mountings for aircraft | Armament and military equipment installed in aircraft | 5 | 5 | 5,175 |
| F41G3/22 | Aiming or laying means for vehicle-borne armament, e.g. on aircraft | Aiming of aircraft and vehicle-borne weapons, including helmet sights | 2 | 1 | 2,998 |
| B64C30/00 | Supersonic type aircraft | Supersonic aircraft | 1 | 1 | 2,465 |
| F41G3/24 | Bombsights | 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 Control of the Air: 8 codes on 10,638 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.
| Code | Title | Under entry | How placed | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B64C30/00 | Supersonic type aircraft | B64C30/00 | In the scheme | 2,465 |
| B64D7/00 | Arrangement of military equipment, e.g. armaments, armament accessories or military shielding, in aircraft; Adaptations of armament mountings for aircraft | B64D7/00 | In the scheme | 2,311 |
| F41G3/22 | Aiming or laying means for vehicle-borne armament, e.g. on aircraft | F41G3/22 | In the scheme | 2,134 |
| B64D7/08 | Arrangement of rocket launchers | B64D7/00 | In the scheme | 1,359 |
| B64D7/02 | Arrangement of military equipment, e.g. armaments, armament accessories or military shielding, in aircraft; Adaptations of armament mountings for aircraft the armaments being firearms | B64D7/00 | In the scheme | 944 |
| F41G3/225 | Helmet sighting systems | F41G3/22 | In the scheme | 864 |
| B64D7/06 | Arrangement of military equipment, e.g. armaments, armament accessories or military shielding, in aircraft; Adaptations of armament mountings for aircraft the armaments being firearms movably mounted | B64D7/00 | In the scheme | 431 |
| B64D7/04 | Arrangement of military equipment, e.g. armaments, armament accessories or military shielding, in aircraft; Adaptations of armament mountings for aircraft the armaments being firearms fixedly mounted | B64D7/00 | In the scheme | 130 |