- International families
- 5122015 to 2024
- Leading country
- United States1.4× the next
- All families
- 859home 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
Germany
Japan
South Korea
China
Israel
Sweden
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Taiwan
137
98
70
45
24
17
16
14
13
12
| 2000 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 137 | 26.8% | 1.3× | 259 | |
| 2 | Germany | 98 | 19.1% | 1.0× | 139 | |
| 3 | Japan | 70 | 13.7% | 0.6× | 74 | |
| 4 | South Korea | 45 | 8.8% | 0.9× | 85 | |
| 5 | China | 24 | 4.7% | 1.7× | 136 | |
| 6 | Israel | 17 | 3.3% | 1.4× | 20 | |
| 7 | Sweden | 16 | 3.1% | 1.7× | 16 | |
| 8 | Netherlands | 14 | 2.7% | 1.0× | 14 | |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 13 | 2.5% | 0.2× | 15 | |
| 10 | Taiwan | 12 | 2.3% | 5.0× | 13 | |
| 11 | Canada | 9 | 1.8% | 0.3× | 10 | |
| 12 | Finland | 6 | 1.2% | – | 6 | |
| 13 | France | 5 | 1.0% | 0.7× | 10 | |
| 14 | Switzerland | 5 | 1.0% | 4.0× | 6 | |
| 15 | Italy | 4 | 0.8% | 1.0× | 4 | |
| 16 | Australia | 4 | 0.8% | 3.0× | 5 | |
| 17 | India | 4 | 0.8% | – | 5 | |
| 18 | Austria | 3 | 0.6% | 0.5× | 3 | |
| 19 | Luxembourg | 3 | 0.6% | 0.0× | 3 | |
| 20 | Denmark | 2 | 0.4% | – | 2 | |
| 21 | Belgium | 1 | 0.2% | – | 1 | |
| 22 | Türkiye | 1 | 0.2% | – | 1 | |
| 23 | Russia | 1 | 0.2% | – | 10 | |
| 24 | Norway | 1 | 0.2% | – | 1 | |
| 25 | Portugal | 1 | 0.2% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 26 | Hong Kong | 0 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 27 | Czechia | 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 Technical & Measurement Intelligence. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.
Global
512 international families
BOSCH GMBH ROBERT · Germany
APTIV TECH LTD · Barbados
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD · South Korea
Aptiv Technologies AG · Switzerland
DENSO CORP · Japan
ROBERT BOSCH CO LTD · Germany
30
18
15
11
11
10
United States
137 international families
GM GLOBAL TECH OPERATIONS LLC
GOOGLE LLC
ROCKWELL COLLINS INC
GOOGLE INC
HONEYWELL INT INC
QUALCOMM INC
8
8
7
6
6
6
Germany
98 international families
BOSCH GMBH ROBERT
ROBERT BOSCH CO LTD
INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
VOLKSWAGEN AG
SIEMENS AG
ZAHNRADFABRIK FRIEDRICHSHAFEN
30
10
8
6
4
4
Japan
70 international families
DENSO CORP
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
NEC CORP
FURUNO ELECTRIC CO
PANASONIC IP MAN CO LTD
SOKEN INC
11
9
6
5
4
4
South Korea
45 international families
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD
KIA MOTORS CORP
KOREA METEOROLOGICAL ADMINISTRATION
MANDO CORP
HL KLEMOVE CORP
15
4
4
4
4
3
China
24 international families
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
SHENZHEN YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECH CO LTD
APOLLO INTELLIGENT DRIVING TECHNOLOGY BEIJING CO LTD
BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCI & TEC
BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCI & TECH CO LTD
6
3
2
1
1
1
Similar capabilities
The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Technical & Measurement Intelligence, 2015 to 2024: the families counted in both as a share of those counted in either. Each card shows its five largest countries.
Critical Technology
Radar & Radiofrequency Sensing
2.1% shared · 494 families in both
United States
Japan
Germany
China
South Korea
5,643
4,132
3,729
2,886
1,890
Governance & Integrity
Organised Crime & Illicit Economy Response
1.0% shared · 37 families in both
United States
Japan
China
Germany
France
744
596
588
394
135
National Security
Land Fires
0.8% shared · 15 families in both
United States
Germany
France
United Kingdom
South Korea
357
232
127
113
93
National Security
Air Sovereignty & Policing
0.8% shared · 5 families in both
United States
France
Germany
Japan
China
46
30
18
10
6
Strategic Infrastructure
Military Bases & Installations
0.6% shared · 13 families in both
United States
Germany
South Korea
United Kingdom
Japan
353
218
111
100
84
National Security
Imagery & Geospatial Intelligence
0.6% shared · 33 families in both
United States
China
Japan
Germany
South Korea
963
914
891
665
209
Critical Technology
Acoustic & Undersea Sensing
0.5% shared · 50 families in both
United States
Japan
Germany
China
South Korea
2,064
1,735
1,370
1,097
687
Strategic Infrastructure
Air Navigation & Traffic Management
0.5% shared · 36 families in both
United States
Japan
China
France
Germany
2,940
1,014
815
738
380
National Security
Integrated Air & Missile Defence
0.4% shared · 4 families in both
Germany
United States
Japan
Israel
United Kingdom
92
75
47
41
28
Crosswalk
How Technical & Measurement Intelligence 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G21J5/00 | Detection arrangements for nuclear explosions | Detection arrangements for nuclear explosions | 1 | 1 | 184 |
| G01S7/412 | Identification of targets based on measurements of radar reflectivity based on a comparison between measured values and known or stored values | Identifying radar targets by comparing echoes with stored signatures | 1 | none | 4,897 |
| F41G3/147 | Indirect aiming means based on detection of a firing weapon | Locating a firing weapon from its flash or sound | 1 | none | 485 |
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 Technical & Measurement Intelligence: 3 codes on 5,552 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.
| Code | Title | Under entry | How placed | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G01S7/412 | Identification of targets based on measurements of radar reflectivity based on a comparison between measured values and known or stored values | G01S7/412 | In the scheme | 4,897 |
| F41G3/147 | Indirect aiming means based on detection of a firing weapon | F41G3/147 | In the scheme | 485 |
| G21J5/00 | Detection arrangements for nuclear explosions | G21J5/00 | In the scheme | 170 |
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