- International families
- 1522015 to 2024
- Leading country
- United States1.5× the next
- All families
- 338home 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
France
Germany
Japan
China
South Korea
Sweden
Israel
United Kingdom
Netherlands
46
30
18
10
6
5
5
5
4
4
| 2000 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 46 | 30.3% | 0.8× | 77 | |
| 2 | France | 30 | 19.7% | 0.4× | 32 | |
| 3 | Germany | 18 | 11.8% | 0.6× | 20 | |
| 4 | Japan | 10 | 6.6% | 0.7× | 33 | |
| 5 | China | 6 | 3.9% | 1.0× | 29 | |
| 6 | South Korea | 5 | 3.3% | 0.3× | 69 | |
| 7 | Sweden | 5 | 3.3% | 0.7× | 5 | |
| 8 | Israel | 5 | 3.3% | 4.0× | 5 | |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 4 | 2.6% | 0.0× | 5 | |
| 10 | Netherlands | 4 | 2.6% | – | 4 | |
| 11 | Canada | 4 | 2.6% | 0.3× | 10 | |
| 12 | Taiwan | 3 | 2.0% | 0.5× | 3 | |
| 13 | Belgium | 3 | 2.0% | – | 4 | |
| 14 | Switzerland | 1 | 0.7% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 15 | Italy | 1 | 0.7% | – | 1 | |
| 16 | Finland | 1 | 0.7% | – | 2 | |
| 17 | Spain | 1 | 0.7% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 18 | Türkiye | 1 | 0.7% | 0.0× | 3 | |
| 19 | Ireland | 1 | 0.7% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 20 | Poland | 1 | 0.7% | – | 1 | |
| 21 | Saudi Arabia | 1 | 0.7% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 22 | Russia | 0 | 0.0% | – | 27 | |
| 23 | 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 Air Sovereignty & Policing. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.
Global
152 international families
THALES SA · France
HONEYWELL INT INC · United States
AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS LLC · United States
BAE SYS INF & ELECT SYS INTEG · United States
HENSOLDT SENSORS GMBH · Germany
AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE SAS · France
21
10
6
4
4
3
United States
46 international families
HONEYWELL INT INC
AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS LLC
BAE SYS INF & ELECT SYS INTEG
AVIATION COMMUNICATION & SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM LLC
CHARVAT GREGORY L
HUMATICS CORP
10
6
4
2
2
2
France
30 international families
THALES SA
AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE SAS
VALEO COMFORT & DRIVING ASSISTANCE
AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS
AVANTIX
CENTRALESUPELEC
21
3
2
1
1
1
Germany
18 international families
HENSOLDT SENSORS GMBH
DIEHL DEFENCE GMBH & CO KG
DIETER FRIEAUFF
DR ARNO HAHMA
DR ROBERT WEYSSER
THALES MAN & SERVICES DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
4
3
2
2
2
2
Japan
10 international families
DENSO CORP
FURUNO ELECTRIC CO
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
RFLOCUS INC
SOKEN INC
SONY CORP
3
1
1
1
1
1
China
6 international families
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
CHENGDU JIUJIN TECH CO LTD
SHANGHAI NAVAR SCIENCE AND TECH CO LTD
SHANGHAI SCIENCE AND TECH LIMITED COMPANY
SICHUAN JIUZHOU ELECTRIC GROUP
UNIV ELECTRONIC SCI & TECH CHINA
3
1
1
1
1
1
Similar capabilities
The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Air Sovereignty & Policing, 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
Air Navigation & Traffic Management
2.1% shared · 152 families in both
United States
Japan
China
France
Germany
2,940
1,014
815
738
380
National Security
Integrated Air & Missile Defence
0.9% shared · 5 families in both
Germany
United States
Japan
Israel
United Kingdom
92
75
47
41
28
National Security
Technical & Measurement Intelligence
0.8% shared · 5 families in both
United States
Germany
Japan
South Korea
China
137
98
70
45
24
National Security
Signals & Cyber Intelligence
0.7% shared · 19 families in both
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
Sweden
635
301
286
241
169
Critical Technology
Radar & Radiofrequency Sensing
0.6% shared · 152 families in both
United States
Japan
Germany
China
South Korea
5,643
4,132
3,729
2,886
1,890
National Security
Counter-Uncrewed & Low-Altitude Defence
0.6% shared · 5 families in both
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Israel
156
135
72
56
50
National Security
Electronic Warfare & Spectrum Operations
0.5% shared · 12 families in both
United States
China
Japan
Germany
South Korea
587
328
227
225
120
National Security
Long-Range Strike
0.5% shared · 5 families in both
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Israel
278
159
88
77
44
National Security
Maritime Security & Constabulary
0.3% shared · 2 families in both
Japan
United States
South Korea
China
France
206
55
42
40
21
Crosswalk
How Air Sovereignty & Policing is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G01S13/78 | Systems using reradiation of radio waves, e.g. secondary radar systems; Analogous systems wherein pulse-type signals are transmitted discriminating between different kinds of targets, e.g. IFF-radar, i.e. identification of friend or foe | Secondary radar identifying friend or foe | 4 | 1 | 5,647 |
| G01S13/785 | Distance Measuring Equipment [DME] systems | Left out |
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 Air Sovereignty & Policing: 4 codes on 4,890 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.
| Code | Title | Under entry | How placed | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G01S13/78 | Systems using reradiation of radio waves, e.g. secondary radar systems; Analogous systems wherein pulse-type signals are transmitted discriminating between different kinds of targets, e.g. IFF-radar, i.e. identification of friend or foe | G01S13/78 | In the scheme | 2,245 |
| G01S13/781 | Secondary Surveillance Radar [SSR] in general | G01S13/78 | In the scheme | 1,208 |
| G01S13/784 | Coders or decoders therefor; Degarbling systems; Defruiting systems | G01S13/78 | In the scheme | 790 |
| G01S13/782 | Secondary Surveillance Radar [SSR] in general using multimoding or selective addressing | G01S13/78 | In the scheme | 647 |