National Security

Command, Control & Communications

The capacity to decide and direct: national and joint command arrangements, resilient communications and the battle networks that turn sensing into action. One of the capabilities of Joint Command, Projection & Sustainment.

International families: 5532015 to 2024
Leading country: United States3.9× the next
All families: 1,175home 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

China

Japan

South Korea

Germany

France

Taiwan

Sweden

Türkiye

Finland

220


1	United States	220	39.8%	0.4×	374
2	China	57	10.3%	0.4×	356
3	Japan	55	9.9%	0.6×	91
4	South Korea	51	9.2%	0.4×	96
5	Germany	26	4.7%	0.5×	36
6	France	18	3.3%	0.8×	21
7	Taiwan	16	2.9%	0.2×	20
8	Sweden	16	2.9%	0.8×	17
9	Türkiye	14	2.5%	1.8×	18
10	Finland	13	2.4%	1.6×	14
11	Switzerland	11	2.0%	0.4×	12
12	United Kingdom	8	1.4%	1.0×	12
13	Canada	7	1.3%	0.2×	8
14	Israel	6	1.1%	0.0×	9
15	Cayman Islands	5	0.9%	0.0×	5
16	Singapore	4	0.7%	1.0×	7
17	Netherlands	3	0.5%	0.0×	5
18	Brazil	3	0.5%	2.0×	5
19	Portugal	3	0.5%	0.5×	3
20	Italy	2	0.4%	–	3
21	Austria	2	0.4%	–	2
22	Belgium	2	0.4%	1.0×	2
23	Australia	1	0.2%	0.0×	2
24	Spain	1	0.2%	0.0×	1
25	India	1	0.2%	0.0×	3
26	Denmark	1	0.2%	–	1
27	Ireland	1	0.2%	0.0×	1
28	New Zealand	1	0.2%	0.0×	1
29	Russia	0	0.0%	–	31
30	Poland	0	0.0%	–	1
31	Mexico	0	0.0%	–	2
32	Malaysia	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 Command, Control & Communications. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.

Global

553 international families

QUALCOMM INC · United States

HUAWEI TECH CO LTD · China

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD · South Korea

ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M · Sweden

IBM · United States

NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY · Finland

United States

220 international families

QUALCOMM INC

IBM

INTEL CORP

INTEL IP CORP

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC

APPLE INC

China

57 international families

HUAWEI TECH CO LTD

BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO LTD

CHINA ACADEMY TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP LTD

SHANGHAI LANGBO COMM TECH CO LTD

UNIV SHENZHEN

Japan

55 international families

FUJITSU LTD

NEC CORP

TAMAGAWA UNIV AND TAMAGAWA ACADEMY

NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE

SONY CORP

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP

South Korea

51 international families

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

LG ELECTRONICS INC

ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RES INST

AGENCY DEFENSE DEV

INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION FOUNDATION JEONBUK NATIONAL UNIV

K4 SECURITY CO LTD

Germany

0.1% shared · 12 families in both

United States

China

Japan

France

South Korea

2,984

2,248

933

651

508

Crosswalk

How Command, Control & Communications is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 9 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
H04K1/00	Secret communication	Secret communication by scrambling or masking the signal	9	6	32,093

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 Command, Control & Communications: 9 codes on 12,456 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.

Code	Title	Under entry	How placed	Documents
H04K1/00	Secret communication	H04K1/00	In the scheme	5,767
H04K1/02	Secret communication by adding a second signal to make the desired signal unintelligible	H04K1/00	In the scheme	2,313
H04K1/04	Secret communication by frequency scrambling, i.e. by transposing or inverting parts of the frequency band or by inverting the whole band	H04K1/00	In the scheme	1,331
H04K1/06	Secret communication by transmitting the information or elements thereof at unnatural speeds or in jumbled order or backwards	H04K1/00	In the scheme	1,003
H04K1/003	Secret communication by varying carrier frequency at or within predetermined or random intervals	H04K1/00	In the scheme	758
H04K1/10	Secret communication by using two signals transmitted simultaneously or successively	H04K1/00	In the scheme	677
H04K1/006	Secret communication by varying or inverting the phase, at periodic or random intervals	H04K1/00	In the scheme	365
H04K1/08	Secret communication by varying the polarisation of transmitted waves	H04K1/00	In the scheme	139
H04K1/025	Secret communication by adding a second signal to make the desired signal unintelligible using an analogue chaotic signal	H04K1/00	In the scheme	103

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. Thin: command arrangements and battle networks have no entry of their own; H04K1 is dual-use and its US International-scheme count is inflated by old cryptography filings; satellite links are counted under Space Support to Operations. The crosswalk is a first pass that nobody has reviewed.

Command, Control & Communications

Year by year

Volume

Share by country

Country leaderboard

Ten largest

Applicants

Global

United States

China

Japan

South Korea

Germany

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Crosswalk

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