- International families
- 162015 to 2024
- Leading country
- United States3.3× the next
- All families
- 53home 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
Germany
Norway
France
China
South Korea
United Kingdom
Switzerland
Russia
10
3
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
| 2000 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 10 | 62.5% | 0.7× | 14 | |
| 2 | Germany | 3 | 18.8% | 0.5× | 7 | |
| 3 | Norway | 2 | 12.5% | 0.0× | 2 | |
| 4 | France | 1 | 6.3% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 5 | China | 0 | 0.0% | – | 6 | |
| 6 | South Korea | 0 | 0.0% | – | 6 | |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 0 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 8 | Switzerland | 0 | 0.0% | – | 2 | |
| 9 | Russia | 0 | 0.0% | – | 10 |
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 Nuclear Forces. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.
Global
16 international families
RAYTHEON CO · United States
CANRIG ROBOTIC TECH A/S · Norway
CANRIG ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGIES AS · Norway
Nabors Lux 2 Sarl · Norway
THYSSENKRUPP AG · Germany
THYSSENKRUPP MARINE SYS GMBH · Germany
6
2
2
2
2
2
United States
10 international families
RAYTHEON CO
AEROVIRONMENT INC
BLKBOX LLC
CRYE CALEB
MSI DEFENSE SOLUTIONS LLC
UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE L L C
6
1
1
1
1
1
Germany
3 international families
THYSSENKRUPP AG
THYSSENKRUPP MARINE SYS GMBH
CITIUS ALTIUS GMBH
2
2
1
Norway
2 international families
CANRIG ROBOTIC TECH A/S
CANRIG ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGIES AS
Nabors Lux 2 Sarl
NABORS LUX FINANCE 2 S A R L
2
2
2
1
France
1 international families
NAVAL GROUP
1
Similar capabilities
The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Nuclear Forces, 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
Sea Control
0.9% shared · 2 families in both
Germany
United States
United Kingdom
France
South Korea
37
32
31
25
13
National Security
Air Strike & Interdiction
0.8% shared · 2 families in both
United States
United Kingdom
Türkiye
Germany
South Korea
45
40
29
23
15
National Security
Land Fires
0.8% shared · 11 families in both
United States
Germany
France
United Kingdom
South Korea
357
232
127
113
93
National Security
Operational Sustainment & War Reserves
0.5% shared · 2 families in both
United States
Germany
France
United Kingdom
China
88
67
32
24
23
National Security
Long-Range Strike
0.5% shared · 4 families in both
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Israel
278
159
88
77
44
National Security
Control of the Air
0.2% shared · 1 families in both
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Türkiye
France
176
57
50
43
41
National Security
Sea Denial & Undersea Warfare
0.2% shared · 3 families in both
United States
Germany
China
France
Japan
308
277
266
139
138
Critical Technology
Space Launch & Reusable Systems
0.2% shared · 2 families in both
United States
France
Germany
Japan
China
369
176
121
104
78
Strategic Infrastructure
Military Bases & Installations
0.1% shared · 2 families in both
United States
Germany
South Korea
United Kingdom
Japan
353
218
111
100
84
Crosswalk
How Nuclear Forces is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G21J1/00 | Nuclear explosive devices "atomic bombs" | Nuclear explosive devices | 1 | 1 | 89 |
| F42B15/12 | Intercontinental ballistic missiles | Intercontinental ballistic missiles | 1 | 1 | 88 |
| F41F3/073 | Silos for rockets, e.g. mounting or sealing rockets therein | Missile silos | 1 | 1 | 365 |
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 Nuclear Forces: 3 codes on 500 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.
| Code | Title | Under entry | How placed | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F41F3/073 | Silos for rockets, e.g. mounting or sealing rockets therein | F41F3/073 | In the scheme | 365 |
| F42B15/12 | Intercontinental ballistic missiles | F42B15/12 | In the scheme | 88 |
| G21J1/00 | Nuclear explosive devices "atomic bombs" | G21J1/00 | In the scheme | 47 |
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