- International families
- 2,1082015 to 2024
- Leading country
- United States1.8× the next
- All families
- 11khome 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
China
Japan
Germany
South Korea
France
United Kingdom
Israel
Sweden
Taiwan
587
328
227
225
120
106
86
58
54
42
| 2000 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 587 | 27.8% | 1.1× | 1,017 | |
| 2 | China | 328 | 15.6% | 1.7× | 7,492 | |
| 3 | Japan | 227 | 10.8% | 1.2× | 408 | |
| 4 | Germany | 225 | 10.7% | 0.9× | 305 | |
| 5 | South Korea | 120 | 5.7% | 0.9× | 713 | |
| 6 | France | 106 | 5.0% | 1.4× | 128 | |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 86 | 4.1% | 0.8× | 121 | |
| 8 | Israel | 58 | 2.8% | 1.6× | 71 | |
| 9 | Sweden | 54 | 2.6% | 1.5× | 57 | |
| 10 | Taiwan | 42 | 2.0% | 1.5× | 58 | |
| 11 | Netherlands | 40 | 1.9% | 0.8× | 44 | |
| 12 | Switzerland | 36 | 1.7% | 1.8× | 36 | |
| 13 | Canada | 36 | 1.7% | 1.0× | 47 | |
| 14 | Finland | 28 | 1.3% | 3.7× | 29 | |
| 15 | Türkiye | 18 | 0.9% | 2.0× | 29 | |
| 16 | Italy | 17 | 0.8% | 1.8× | 24 | |
| 17 | Russia | 14 | 0.7% | 0.4× | 299 | |
| 18 | Belgium | 10 | 0.5% | 1.0× | 10 | |
| 19 | Austria | 9 | 0.4% | 0.8× | 10 | |
| 20 | India | 7 | 0.3% | 0.4× | 11 | |
| 21 | Singapore | 7 | 0.3% | 0.8× | 7 | |
| 22 | Brazil | 5 | 0.2% | 1.5× | 9 | |
| 23 | Australia | 4 | 0.2% | 0.0× | 10 | |
| 24 | Spain | 4 | 0.2% | 0.3× | 6 | |
| 25 | Poland | 4 | 0.2% | 0.3× | 10 | |
| 26 | Portugal | 4 | 0.2% | 1.0× | 4 | |
| 27 | Norway | 3 | 0.1% | 2.0× | 3 | |
| 28 | Ireland | 2 | 0.1% | 1.0× | 2 | |
| 29 | South Africa | 2 | 0.1% | – | 2 | |
| 30 | Czechia | 2 | 0.1% | 1.0× | 2 | |
| 31 | Denmark | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 32 | Hong Kong | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 33 | New Zealand | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 34 | Mexico | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 35 | Malaysia | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 36 | Saudi Arabia | 0 | 0.0% | – | 2 |
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 Electronic Warfare & Spectrum Operations. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.
Global
2,108 international families
QUALCOMM INC · United States
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD · China
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP · Japan
HONEYWELL INT INC · United States
THALES SA · France
BOSCH GMBH ROBERT · Germany
87
73
55
53
44
40
United States
587 international families
QUALCOMM INC
HONEYWELL INT INC
BAE SYS INF & ELECT SYS INTEG
RAYTHEON CO
GM GLOBAL TECH OPERATIONS LLC
BOEING CO
86
53
31
29
25
18
China
328 international families
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
SHENZHEN AWP TECH CO LTD
SHENZHEN YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
SHENZHEN AN WEI PU TECH CO LTD
ZTE CORP
70
26
19
18
15
15
Japan
227 international families
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
DENSO CORP
SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORP
FURUNO ELECTRIC CO
NEC CORP
SONY CORP
52
18
13
11
11
10
Germany
225 international families
BOSCH GMBH ROBERT
INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
DIEHL DEFENCE GMBH & CO KG
HENSOLDT SENSORS GMBH
ROHDE & SCHWARZ
40
19
14
11
11
11
South Korea
120 international families
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
AGENCY DEFENSE DEV
HL KLEMOVE CORP
ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RES INST
HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD
DAEGU GYEONGBUK INST SCIENCE & TECH
27
22
6
5
5
4
Similar capabilities
The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Electronic Warfare & Spectrum Operations, 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
Resilient Positioning & Navigation
6.3% shared · 590 families in both
United States
Japan
China
Germany
France
1,948
1,411
1,349
836
427
National Security
Counter-Uncrewed & Low-Altitude Defence
5.3% shared · 139 families in both
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Israel
156
135
72
56
50
National Security
Integrated Air & Missile Defence
4.6% shared · 110 families in both
Germany
United States
Japan
Israel
United Kingdom
92
75
47
41
28
National Security
Command, Control & Communications
3.7% shared · 94 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
Germany
220
57
55
51
26
Strategic Infrastructure
Military Bases & Installations
3.6% shared · 128 families in both
United States
Germany
South Korea
United Kingdom
Japan
353
218
111
100
84
National Security
Signals & Cyber Intelligence
3.5% shared · 155 families in both
United States
Japan
China
South Korea
Sweden
635
301
286
241
169
Critical Technology
Radar & Radiofrequency Sensing
2.6% shared · 674 families in both
United States
Japan
Germany
China
South Korea
5,643
4,132
3,729
2,886
1,890
National Security
Long-Range Strike
1.7% shared · 50 families in both
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Israel
278
159
88
77
44
Critical Technology
Directed Energy Technologies
1.5% shared · 56 families in both
United States
Japan
Germany
China
United Kingdom
479
386
232
150
99
Crosswalk
How Electronic Warfare & Spectrum Operations is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H04K3/00 | Jamming of communication; Counter-measures | Jamming of communications and counter-measures to jamming | 35 | 2 | 37,260 |
| G01S7/38 | Jamming means, e.g. producing false echoes | Radar jamming and false-echo generation | 1 | 1 | 4,693 |
| G01S7/36 | Means for anti-jamming, e.g. ECCM, i.e. electronic counter-counter measures | Radar anti-jamming | 1 | 1 | 11,185 |
| G01S7/495 | Counter-measures or counter-counter-measures using electronic or electro-optical means | Counter-measures against laser and electro-optical sensors | 1 | 1 | 2,625 |
| G01S7/537 | Counter-measures or counter-counter-measures, e.g. jamming, anti-jamming | Sonar jamming and anti-jamming | 1 | 1 | 912 |
| G01S19/015 | Arrangements for jamming, spoofing or other methods of denial of service of such systems | Jamming and spoofing of satellite navigation | 1 | none | 1,095 |
| G01S19/21 | Interference related issues ; Issues related to cross-correlation, spoofing or other methods of denial of service | Protecting satellite navigation receivers against interference and spoofing | 2 | 1 | 10,766 |
| F42B12/70 | Projectiles, missiles or mines characterised by the warhead, the intended effect, or the material characterised by the warhead or the intended effect for dispensing materials; for producing chemical or physical reaction; for signalling ; for transmitting information for dispensing discrete solid bodies for dispensing radar chaff or infrared material | Projectiles dispensing radar chaff or infrared decoy material | 1 | 1 | 1,414 |
| F42B5/15 | Cartridges, i.e. cases with charge and missile for dispensing gases, vapours, powders, particles or chemically-reactive substances for creating a screening or decoy effect, e.g. using radar chaff or infrared material | Cartridges dispensing chaff or decoy screening material | 2 | 2 | 1,485 |
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 Electronic Warfare & Spectrum Operations: 45 codes on 66,895 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.
| Code | Title | Under entry | How placed | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G01S7/36 | Means for anti-jamming, e.g. ECCM, i.e. electronic counter-counter measures | G01S7/36 | In the scheme | 8,095 |
| G01S19/21 | Interference related issues ; Issues related to cross-correlation, spoofing or other methods of denial of service | G01S19/21 | In the scheme | 6,975 |
| G01S19/215 | Interference related issues ; Issues related to cross-correlation, spoofing or other methods of denial of service issues related to spoofing | G01S19/21 | In the scheme | 3,791 |
| H04K3/825 | Jamming or countermeasure characterized by its function related to preventing surveillance, interception or detection by jamming | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 3,553 |
| G01S7/38 | Jamming means, e.g. producing false echoes | G01S7/38 | In the scheme | 3,332 |
| H04K3/42 | Jamming having variable characteristics characterized by the control of the jamming frequency or wavelength | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 3,160 |
| H04K3/45 | Jamming having variable characteristics characterized by including monitoring of the target or target signal, e.g. in reactive jammers or follower jammers for example by means of an alternation of jamming phases and monitoring phases, called "look-through mode" | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 3,091 |
| G01S7/495 | Counter-measures or counter-counter-measures using electronic or electro-optical means | G01S7/495 | In the scheme | 2,625 |
| H04K3/43 | Jamming having variable characteristics characterized by the control of the jamming power, signal-to-noise ratio or geographic coverage area | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 2,352 |
| H04K3/65 | Jamming involving special techniques using deceptive jamming or spoofing, e.g. transmission of false signals for premature triggering of RCIED, for forced connection or disconnection to/from a network or for generation of dummy target signal | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 1,924 |
| H04K3/22 | Countermeasures against jamming including jamming detection and monitoring | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 1,722 |
| H04K3/90 | Jamming or countermeasure characterized by its function related to allowing or preventing navigation or positioning, e.g. GPS | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 1,613 |
| H04K3/226 | Selection of non-jammed channel for communication | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 1,591 |
| H04K3/41 | Jamming having variable characteristics characterized by the control of the jamming activation or deactivation time | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 1,471 |
| F42B12/70 | Projectiles, missiles or mines characterised by the warhead, the intended effect, or the material characterised by the warhead or the intended effect for dispensing materials; for producing chemical or physical reaction; for signalling ; for transmitting information for dispensing discrete solid bodies for dispensing radar chaff or infrared material | F42B12/70 | In the scheme | 1,414 |
| H04K3/228 | Elimination in the received signal of jamming or of data corrupted by jamming | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 1,245 |
| H04K3/822 | Jamming or countermeasure characterized by its function related to preventing surveillance, interception or detection by detecting the presence of a surveillance, interception or detection | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 1,183 |
| G01S19/015 | Arrangements for jamming, spoofing or other methods of denial of service of such systems | G01S19/015 | In the scheme | 1,095 |
| H04K3/68 | Jamming involving special techniques using passive jamming, e.g. by shielding or reflection | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 1,068 |
| H04K3/92 | Jamming or countermeasure characterized by its function related to allowing or preventing remote control | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 1,053 |
| H04K3/00 | Jamming of communication; Counter-measures | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 1,015 |
| H04K3/224 | Countermeasures against jamming including jamming detection and monitoring with countermeasures at transmission and/or reception of the jammed signal, e.g. stopping operation of transmitter or receiver, nulling or enhancing transmitted power in direction of or at frequency of jammer | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 1,015 |
| F42B5/15 | Cartridges, i.e. cases with charge and missile for dispensing gases, vapours, powders, particles or chemically-reactive substances for creating a screening or decoy effect, e.g. using radar chaff or infrared material | F42B5/15 | In the scheme | 1,005 |
| H04K3/28 | Countermeasures against jamming with jamming and anti-jamming mechanisms both included in a same device or system, e.g. wherein anti-jamming includes prevention of undesired self-jamming resulting from jamming | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 961 |
| H04K3/25 | Countermeasures against jamming based on characteristics of target signal or of transmission, e.g. using direct sequence spread spectrum or fast frequency hopping | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 926 |
| H04K3/84 | Jamming or countermeasure characterized by its function related to preventing electromagnetic interference in petrol station, hospital, plane or cinema | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 888 |
| H04K3/62 | Jamming involving special techniques by exposing communication, processing or storing systems to electromagnetic wave radiation, e.g. causing disturbance, disruption or damage of electronic circuits, or causing external injection of faults in the information | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 859 |
| G01S7/537 | Counter-measures or counter-counter-measures, e.g. jamming, anti-jamming | G01S7/537 | In the scheme | 823 |
| H04K3/44 | Jamming having variable characteristics characterized by the control of the jamming waveform or modulation type | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 799 |
| H04K3/86 | Jamming or countermeasure characterized by its function related to preventing deceptive jamming or unauthorized interrogation or access, e.g. WLAN access or RFID reading | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 779 |
| H04K3/827 | Jamming or countermeasure characterized by its function related to preventing surveillance, interception or detection using characteristics of target signal or of transmission, e.g. using direct sequence spread spectrum or fast frequency hopping | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 735 |
| H04K3/46 | Jamming having variable characteristics characterized in that the jamming signal is produced by retransmitting a received signal, after delay or processing | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 584 |
| H04K3/94 | Jamming or countermeasure characterized by its function related to allowing or preventing testing or assessing | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 517 |
| F42B5/155 | Smoke-pot projectors, e.g. arranged on vehicles | F42B5/15 | In the scheme | 480 |
| H04K3/255 | Countermeasures against jamming based on characteristics of target signal or of transmission, e.g. using direct sequence spread spectrum or fast frequency hopping based on redundancy of transmitted data, transmission path or transmitting source | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 457 |
| H04K3/80 | Jamming or countermeasure characterized by its function | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 443 |
| H04K3/40 | Jamming having variable characteristics | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 372 |
| H04K3/82 | Jamming or countermeasure characterized by its function related to preventing surveillance, interception or detection | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 366 |
| H04K3/222 | Countermeasures against jamming including jamming detection and monitoring wherein jamming detection includes detecting the absence or impossibility of intelligible communication on at least one channel | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 336 |
| H04K3/88 | Jamming or countermeasure characterized by its function related to allowing or preventing alarm transmission | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 300 |
| H04K3/20 | Countermeasures against jamming | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 297 |
| H04K3/415 | Jamming having variable characteristics characterized by the control of the jamming activation or deactivation time based on motion status or velocity, e.g. for disabling use of mobile phones in a vehicle | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 297 |
| H04K3/60 | Jamming involving special techniques | H04K3/00 | In the scheme | 286 |
| H04K3/0058 | Retired code | H04K3/00 | Retired, by main group | 1 |
| H04K3/0231 | Retired code | H04K3/00 | Retired, by main group | 1 |
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