- International families
- 2,0572015 to 2024
- Leading country
- United States2.2× the next
- All families
- 8,253home 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
Japan
China
South Korea
Germany
Canada
France
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Netherlands
634
286
147
125
119
99
71
71
58
43
| 2000 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 634 | 30.8% | 0.8× | 1,195 | |
| 2 | Japan | 286 | 13.9% | 0.8× | 640 | |
| 3 | China | 147 | 7.1% | 1.9× | 3,754 | |
| 4 | South Korea | 125 | 6.1% | 1.3× | 640 | |
| 5 | Germany | 119 | 5.8% | 0.9× | 162 | |
| 6 | Canada | 99 | 4.8% | 0.8× | 123 | |
| 7 | France | 71 | 3.5% | 1.0× | 91 | |
| 8 | Switzerland | 71 | 3.5% | 1.3× | 80 | |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 58 | 2.8% | 0.7× | 94 | |
| 10 | Netherlands | 43 | 2.1% | 1.0× | 49 | |
| 11 | Italy | 33 | 1.6% | 4.5× | 75 | |
| 12 | Spain | 33 | 1.6% | 1.2× | 52 | |
| 13 | Taiwan | 32 | 1.6% | 1.7× | 126 | |
| 14 | Israel | 29 | 1.4% | 0.8× | 35 | |
| 15 | Australia | 28 | 1.4% | 2.5× | 33 | |
| 16 | Türkiye | 28 | 1.4% | 4.6× | 37 | |
| 17 | Russia | 20 | 1.0% | 1.9× | 631 | |
| 18 | India | 19 | 0.9% | 2.2× | 25 | |
| 19 | Brazil | 17 | 0.8% | 1.1× | 81 | |
| 20 | Sweden | 14 | 0.7% | 0.6× | 16 | |
| 21 | Denmark | 14 | 0.7% | 0.6× | 17 | |
| 22 | Belgium | 14 | 0.7% | 1.0× | 17 | |
| 23 | Singapore | 13 | 0.6% | 2.3× | 13 | |
| 24 | Austria | 10 | 0.5% | 0.7× | 18 | |
| 25 | Norway | 9 | 0.4% | 0.5× | 11 | |
| 26 | Poland | 9 | 0.4% | 2.0× | 30 | |
| 27 | Ireland | 6 | 0.3% | 2.0× | 10 | |
| 28 | Mexico | 6 | 0.3% | 1.0× | 14 | |
| 29 | Malaysia | 6 | 0.3% | 0.2× | 13 | |
| 30 | Portugal | 5 | 0.2% | 4.0× | 10 | |
| 31 | New Zealand | 3 | 0.1% | 2.0× | 4 | |
| 32 | Luxembourg | 3 | 0.1% | 2.0× | 5 | |
| 33 | Finland | 2 | 0.1% | 0.0× | 4 | |
| 34 | Hong Kong | 1 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 35 | South Africa | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 36 | Saudi Arabia | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0× | 5 | |
| 37 | Czechia | 1 | 0.0% | – | 5 | |
| 38 | Liechtenstein | 1 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 39 | Hungary | 1 | 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 Health & Care Workforce. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.
Global
2,057 international families
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS NV · Netherlands
APPLIED MED RESOURCES · United States
CAE HEALTHCARE CANADA INC · Canada
HUMANETICS INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS INC · United States
ASAHI INTECC CO LTD · Japan
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS · United States
32
28
25
25
24
22
United States
634 international families
APPLIED MED RESOURCES
HUMANETICS INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS INC
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS
NOBLE INT INC
COVIDIEN LP
UNIV JOHNS HOPKINS
28
25
22
15
13
11
Japan
286 international families
ASAHI INTECC CO LTD
DENKA COMPANY LTD
TERUMO CORP
UNIV TOHOKU
RICOH CO LTD
SEIKO EPSON CORP
24
17
16
15
12
12
China
147 international families
CATARC AUTOMOTIVE TEST CENTER TIANJIN CO LTD
CHINA AUTOMOTIVE TECH & RES CT
BEIJING BOYI AGE MEDICAL TREAT TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
SHENZHEN INST OF ADV TECH CAS
TELLYES SCIENT INC
UNIV JIANGNAN
12
12
5
5
5
5
South Korea
125 international families
CATHOLIC UNIV KOREA IND ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION
I M LAB INC
UNIV KOREA RES & BUS FOUND
ASAN FOUND
SEOUL NAT UNIV HOSPITAL
SEOUL NAT UNIV R&DB FOUNDATION
10
5
5
4
4
4
Germany
119 international families
SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT
UNIV OTTO VON GUERICKE MAGDEBURG
CRASHTEST SERVICE COM GMBH
PFEIFER GERHARD
11
8
4
4
3
3
Similar capabilities
The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Health & Care Workforce, 2015 to 2024: the families counted in both as a share of those counted in either. Each card shows its five largest countries.
Strategic Infrastructure
Education & Skills Infrastructure
15.7% shared · 2,057 families in both
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
Germany
3,247
2,198
1,763
1,499
503
Human Capital
Occupational Skills & Certification
10.8% shared · 497 families in both
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
Germany
747
563
319
294
184
Human Capital
Foundational Learning
4.5% shared · 356 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Taiwan
1,468
1,054
1,039
901
207
Strategic Infrastructure
Health Infrastructure
0.6% shared · 467 families in both
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
Germany
24,406
13,906
7,434
6,894
5,818
Human Capital
Service Delivery & Coverage
0.4% shared · 1,175 families in both
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
Germany
84,023
38,520
26,886
18,896
17,937
Production & Innovation
Services Economy
0.4% shared · 366 families in both
United States
Japan
South Korea
China
Germany
24,048
16,321
11,491
8,566
3,398
Critical Technology
Additive & Precision Manufacturing
0.3% shared · 148 families in both
United States
Japan
Germany
China
France
12,360
9,517
6,338
3,185
1,753
Critical Technology
Human-Machine Interfaces
0.3% shared · 154 families in both
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
Germany
14,516
9,319
7,249
6,474
2,639
Strategic Infrastructure
Housing, Community & Social Services
0.3% shared · 16 families in both
Japan
United States
South Korea
China
Germany
1,038
891
663
294
154
Crosswalk
How Health & Care Workforce is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G09B23/28 | Models for scientific, medical, or mathematical purposes, e.g. full-sized devices for demonstration purposes for medicine | Medical training models and patient simulators | 11 | 4 | 49,851 |
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 Health & Care Workforce: 11 codes on 48,831 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.
| Code | Title | Under entry | How placed | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G09B23/28 | Models for scientific, medical, or mathematical purposes, e.g. full-sized devices for demonstration purposes for medicine | G09B23/28 | In the scheme | 14,172 |
| G09B23/30 | Anatomical models | G09B23/28 | In the scheme | 8,777 |
| G09B23/285 | Models for scientific, medical, or mathematical purposes, e.g. full-sized devices for demonstration purposes for medicine for injections, endoscopy, bronchoscopy, sigmoidscopy, insertion of contraceptive devices or enemas | G09B23/28 | In the scheme | 7,258 |
| G09B23/32 | Anatomical models with moving parts | G09B23/28 | In the scheme | 3,774 |
| G09B23/288 | Models for scientific, medical, or mathematical purposes, e.g. full-sized devices for demonstration purposes for medicine for artificial respiration or heart massage | G09B23/28 | In the scheme | 3,363 |
| G09B23/34 | Anatomical models with removable parts | G09B23/28 | In the scheme | 2,668 |
| G09B23/303 | Anatomical models specially adapted to simulate circulation of bodily fluids | G09B23/28 | In the scheme | 2,539 |
| G09B23/286 | Models for scientific, medical, or mathematical purposes, e.g. full-sized devices for demonstration purposes for medicine for scanning or photography techniques, e.g. X-rays, ultrasonics | G09B23/28 | In the scheme | 2,271 |
| G09B23/283 | Models for scientific, medical, or mathematical purposes, e.g. full-sized devices for demonstration purposes for medicine for dentistry or oral hygiene | G09B23/28 | In the scheme | 2,225 |
| G09B23/281 | Models for scientific, medical, or mathematical purposes, e.g. full-sized devices for demonstration purposes for medicine for pregnancy, birth or obstetrics | G09B23/28 | In the scheme | 988 |
| G09B23/306 | Anatomical models comprising real biological tissue | G09B23/28 | In the scheme | 796 |