- International families
- 1,2062015 to 2024
- Leading country
- United States1.3× the next
- All families
- 3,127home filings included
- Over five years
- Rising2020 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
Germany
South Korea
Canada
Sweden
France
India
Taiwan
382
287
131
120
54
27
23
20
15
14
| 2000 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 382 | 31.7% | 1.6× | 1,113 | |
| 2 | Japan | 287 | 23.8% | 2.0× | 323 | |
| 3 | China | 131 | 10.9% | 5.0× | 1,075 | |
| 4 | Germany | 120 | 10.0% | 5.0× | 152 | |
| 5 | South Korea | 54 | 4.5% | 2.9× | 140 | |
| 6 | Canada | 27 | 2.2% | 2.0× | 35 | |
| 7 | Sweden | 23 | 1.9% | 6.7× | 24 | |
| 8 | France | 20 | 1.7% | 1.9× | 29 | |
| 9 | India | 15 | 1.2% | 2.0× | 27 | |
| 10 | Taiwan | 14 | 1.2% | 1.0× | 16 | |
| 11 | United Kingdom | 13 | 1.1% | 3.3× | 22 | |
| 12 | Switzerland | 13 | 1.1% | 3.3× | 14 | |
| 13 | Finland | 12 | 1.0% | 1.0× | 13 | |
| 14 | Ireland | 12 | 1.0% | 0.7× | 33 | |
| 15 | Singapore | 10 | 0.8% | 4.0× | 12 | |
| 16 | Israel | 9 | 0.7% | 8.0× | 19 | |
| 17 | Netherlands | 7 | 0.6% | 0.8× | 9 | |
| 18 | Portugal | 7 | 0.6% | – | 10 | |
| 19 | Belgium | 6 | 0.5% | 5.0× | 6 | |
| 20 | Türkiye | 5 | 0.4% | – | 5 | |
| 21 | Spain | 4 | 0.3% | 1.0× | 5 | |
| 22 | Cayman Islands | 4 | 0.3% | 1.0× | 5 | |
| 23 | Australia | 3 | 0.2% | 2.0× | 3 | |
| 24 | Denmark | 2 | 0.2% | – | 2 | |
| 25 | Hong Kong | 2 | 0.2% | 1.0× | 2 | |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 2 | 0.2% | 1.0× | 2 | |
| 27 | Italy | 1 | 0.1% | – | 2 | |
| 28 | Austria | 1 | 0.1% | – | 1 | |
| 29 | Norway | 1 | 0.1% | – | 1 | |
| 30 | Brazil | 1 | 0.1% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 31 | Poland | 1 | 0.1% | 0.0× | 2 | |
| 32 | Mexico | 0 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 33 | Hungary | 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 AI Safety, Security & Evaluation. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.
Global
1,206 international families
FUJITSU LTD · Japan
NEC CORP · Japan
SIEMENS AG · Germany
BOSCH GMBH ROBERT · Germany
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD · China
IBM · United States
73
46
40
37
36
33
United States
382 international families
IBM
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
GOOGLE LLC
ORACLE INT CORP
EQUIFAX INC
INTEL CORP
33
28
13
12
9
9
Japan
287 international families
FUJITSU LTD
NEC CORP
HITACHI LTD
SONY GROUP CORP
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
FANUC CORP
72
40
29
14
13
11
China
131 international families
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
HONOR DEVICE CO LTD
RONGYAO TERMINAL CO LTD
BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCI & TECH CO LTD
BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCI & TEC
ALIPAY HANGZHOU INF TECH CO LTD
35
7
7
6
5
4
Germany
120 international families
SIEMENS AG
BOSCH GMBH ROBERT
ROBERT BOSCH CO LTD
NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH
SAP SE
ROBERT BOSCH CO LIMITED
38
37
11
8
8
6
South Korea
54 international families
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
FOUNDATION SOONGSIL UNIV INDUSTRY COOPERATION
HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD
CJ NETWORKS CO LTD
CJ OLIVENETWORKS CO LTD
ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RES INST
6
3
3
2
2
2
Similar capabilities
The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with AI Safety, Security & Evaluation, 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
Machine Learning & Foundation Models
0.9% shared · 1,011 families in both
United States
China
South Korea
Japan
Germany
32,358
20,768
15,108
13,257
5,948
Strategic Infrastructure
AI Tools & Applications
0.5% shared · 1,206 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Germany
59,104
48,655
39,220
27,537
12,086
Financial Strength
Financial Integrity & Illicit Finance Control
0.5% shared · 16 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Canada
1,064
181
104
84
67
Financial Strength
Banking System Capacity
0.5% shared · 29 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Canada
1,677
722
638
486
297
Critical Technology
Applied AI & Advanced Analytics
0.5% shared · 985 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Germany
52,577
44,684
37,272
22,879
11,142
Strategic Infrastructure
Banks, Insurers & Systemic Institutions
0.4% shared · 38 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Canada
2,907
1,531
1,087
813
421
Governance & Integrity
Access to Justice & Legal Services
0.4% shared · 12 families in both
United States
Japan
South Korea
China
Canada
584
369
224
199
60
Strategic Infrastructure
Justice & Corrections
0.3% shared · 12 families in both
United States
Japan
South Korea
China
Canada
667
396
245
243
79
Financial Strength
Revenue Mobilisation & Tax Administration
0.3% shared · 9 families in both
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
Canada
529
216
207
74
45
Crosswalk
How AI Safety, Security & Evaluation is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G06N5/045 | Explanation of inference; Explainable artificial intelligence [XAI]; Interpretable artificial intelligence | Explainable and interpretable AI | 1 | 1 | 10,839 |
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 AI Safety, Security & Evaluation: 1 codes on 10,839 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.
| Code | Title | Under entry | How placed | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G06N5/045 | Explanation of inference; Explainable artificial intelligence [XAI]; Interpretable artificial intelligence | G06N5/045 | In the scheme | 10,839 |