Human Capital

Inclusive Reach

The capacity to extend schooling and learning of equal quality to every group and region, whatever a child's background. One of the capabilities of Foundational Education.

International families: 1,0022015 to 2024
Leading country: United States1.9× the next
All families: 3,536home filings included
Over five years: Falling2020 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

Japan

China

Germany

France

India

United Kingdom

Israel

Türkiye

267

141

125


1	United States	267	26.6%	0.8×	714
2	South Korea	141	14.1%	0.9×	995
3	Japan	125	12.5%	0.8×	416
4	China	72	7.2%	0.8×	597
5	Germany	46	4.6%	0.5×	84
6	France	38	3.8%	0.8×	61
7	India	36	3.6%	0.5×	64
8	United Kingdom	28	2.8%	1.2×	44
9	Israel	28	2.8%	1.0×	29
10	Türkiye	20	2.0%	0.4×	63
11	Canada	19	1.9%	0.4×	31
12	Italy	18	1.8%	1.3×	37
13	Switzerland	16	1.6%	0.6×	20
14	Spain	14	1.4%	1.3×	23
15	Netherlands	10	1.0%	0.4×	12
16	Australia	10	1.0%	0.7×	23
17	Taiwan	8	0.8%	0.6×	35
18	Austria	7	0.7%	0.2×	10
19	Russia	7	0.7%	0.4×	25
20	Denmark	6	0.6%	1.0×	6
21	Sweden	5	0.5%	0.7×	5
22	Ireland	5	0.5%	1.5×	7
23	Brazil	5	0.5%	0.7×	46
24	Hong Kong	5	0.5%	1.5×	7
25	Portugal	5	0.5%	1.5×	7
26	Singapore	4	0.4%	3.0×	6
27	Belgium	3	0.3%	0.0×	6
28	Norway	3	0.3%	2.0×	3
29	Poland	3	0.3%	2.0×	20
30	Mexico	3	0.3%	0.5×	12
31	Finland	2	0.2%	0.0×	3
32	New Zealand	2	0.2%	1.0×	2
33	Saudi Arabia	1	0.1%	–	9
34	Czechia	1	0.1%	0.0×	5
35	Malaysia	0	0.0%	–	3
36	Hungary	0	0.0%	–	3

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 Inclusive Reach. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.

Global

1,002 international families

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC · United States

SONY CORP · Japan

ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RES INST · South Korea

DOT INC · South Korea

FREEDOM SCIENTIFIC INC · United States

SONY GROUP CORP · Japan

United States

267 international families

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC

FREEDOM SCIENTIFIC INC

IBM

GM GLOBAL TECH OPERATIONS LLC

DISNEY ENTPR INC

FORD GLOBAL TECH LLC

South Korea

141 international families

ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RES INST

DOT INC

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD

KIA MOTORS CORP

SENSEE INC

Japan

125 international families

SONY CORP

SONY GROUP CORP

SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC

TOYOTA MOTOR CO LTD

TOYOTA MOTOR CORP

CANON KK

China

72 international families

BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD

HUAWEI TECH CO LTD

CLOUDMINDS INC

CLOUDMINDS SHENZHEN ROBOTICS SYSTEMS CO LTD

GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP LTD

TENCENT TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD

Germany

46 international families

BAUM RETEC AG

BOSCH GMBH ROBERT

LS ASSET MAN GMBH & CO KG

BARRIEREFREIHEIT GMBH LEITSYSTEME FUER BLINDE UND SEHEINGESCHRAENKTE MENSCHEN

BAUM WOLFGANG

JOHNSON MATTHEY PIEZO PRODUCTS GMBH

Similar capabilities

The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Inclusive Reach, 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

7.6% shared · 1,002 families in both

United States

Japan

China

South Korea

Germany

3,247

2,198

1,763

1,499

503

0.2% shared · 89 families in both

China

United States

Japan

South Korea

France

11,427

11,259

6,437

6,383

1,042

Crosswalk

How Inclusive Reach is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 14 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
G09B21/00	Teaching, or communicating with, the blind, deaf or mute	Teaching or communicating with blind, deaf or mute people	14	5	24,599

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 Inclusive Reach: 14 codes on 24,599 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.

Code	Title	Under entry	How placed	Documents
G09B21/003	Teaching or communicating with blind persons using tactile presentation of the information, e.g. Braille displays	G09B21/00	In the scheme	5,585
G09B21/006	Teaching or communicating with blind persons using audible presentation of the information	G09B21/00	In the scheme	3,285
G09B21/00	Teaching, or communicating with, the blind, deaf or mute	G09B21/00	In the scheme	3,032
G09B21/009	Teaching or communicating with deaf persons	G09B21/00	In the scheme	2,986
G09B21/008	Teaching or communicating with blind persons using visual presentation of the information for the partially sighted	G09B21/00	In the scheme	2,109
G09B21/004	Details of particular tactile cells, e.g. electro-mechanical or mechanical layout	G09B21/00	In the scheme	2,009
G09B21/007	Teaching or communicating with blind persons using both tactile and audible presentation of the information	G09B21/00	In the scheme	1,514
G09B21/001	Teaching or communicating with blind persons	G09B21/00	In the scheme	1,361
G09B21/02	Devices for Braille writing	G09B21/00	In the scheme	1,141
G09B21/04	Devices for conversing with the deaf-blind	G09B21/00	In the scheme	556
G09B21/005	Details of specially-adapted software to access information, e.g. to browse through hyperlinked information	G09B21/00	In the scheme	454
G09B21/002	Writing aids for blind persons	G09B21/00	In the scheme	322
G09B21/025	Devices for Braille writing wherein one tactile input is associated to a single finger	G09B21/00	In the scheme	203
G09B21/06	Devices for teaching lip-reading	G09B21/00	In the scheme	42

Match: Through its tools

The classification names the equipment or technology the capability draws on, not the capability. The count says how much is being invented for it, not how well it is done. Captures only assistive teaching for sensory disability; gaps by gender, income and region have no technology of their own. The crosswalk is a first pass that nobody has reviewed.

Inclusive Reach

Year by year

Volume

Share by country

Country leaderboard

Ten largest

Applicants

Global

United States

South Korea

Japan

China

Germany

Similar capabilities

Crosswalk

Other capabilities in Foundational Education