- International families
- 2,3152015 to 2024
- Leading country
- United States1.3× the next
- All families
- 8,951home 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
South Korea
France
Germany
Finland
United Kingdom
Sweden
Canada
738
578
300
153
115
100
49
46
37
27
| 2000 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 738 | 31.9% | 1.5× | 1,167 | |
| 2 | China | 578 | 25.0% | 3.1× | 5,929 | |
| 3 | Japan | 300 | 13.0% | 1.3× | 502 | |
| 4 | South Korea | 153 | 6.6% | 2.3× | 643 | |
| 5 | France | 115 | 5.0% | 0.7× | 122 | |
| 6 | Germany | 100 | 4.3% | 1.0× | 113 | |
| 7 | Finland | 49 | 2.1% | 7.2× | 52 | |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 46 | 2.0% | 0.8× | 61 | |
| 9 | Sweden | 37 | 1.6% | 1.8× | 37 | |
| 10 | Canada | 27 | 1.2% | 0.8× | 35 | |
| 11 | Taiwan | 25 | 1.1% | 5.3× | 32 | |
| 12 | Australia | 17 | 0.7% | 1.1× | 17 | |
| 13 | Italy | 16 | 0.7% | 1.3× | 17 | |
| 14 | Israel | 16 | 0.7% | 0.6× | 23 | |
| 15 | Belgium | 16 | 0.7% | 1.0× | 17 | |
| 16 | Netherlands | 12 | 0.5% | 1.0× | 24 | |
| 17 | Singapore | 11 | 0.5% | – | 11 | |
| 18 | India | 10 | 0.4% | 2.3× | 12 | |
| 19 | Switzerland | 9 | 0.4% | 8.0× | 9 | |
| 20 | Spain | 6 | 0.3% | 1.0× | 8 | |
| 21 | Türkiye | 6 | 0.3% | – | 6 | |
| 22 | Norway | 4 | 0.2% | 0.3× | 4 | |
| 23 | Austria | 3 | 0.1% | 0.5× | 3 | |
| 24 | Denmark | 3 | 0.1% | 0.5× | 3 | |
| 25 | Luxembourg | 3 | 0.1% | 0.5× | 3 | |
| 26 | Saudi Arabia | 2 | 0.1% | – | 2 | |
| 27 | Portugal | 2 | 0.1% | – | 2 | |
| 28 | Russia | 1 | 0.0% | – | 76 | |
| 29 | Ireland | 1 | 0.0% | – | 2 | |
| 30 | Hong Kong | 1 | 0.0% | – | 2 | |
| 31 | New Zealand | 1 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 32 | Liechtenstein | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 33 | Brazil | 0 | 0.0% | – | 2 | |
| 34 | Poland | 0 | 0.0% | – | 2 | |
| 35 | Mexico | 0 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 36 | Malaysia | 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 Ground Segment & Tracking. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.
Global
2,315 international families
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD · China
HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS LLC · United States
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP · Japan
QUALCOMM INC · United States
VIASAT INC · United States
THALES SA · France
198
132
107
105
55
44
United States
738 international families
HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEMS LLC
QUALCOMM INC
VIASAT INC
BOEING CO
HONEYWELL INT INC
DEERE & CO
132
104
55
27
21
19
China
578 international families
HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
Datang mobile communications equipment co ltd
ZTE CORP
BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO LTD
CHINA TELECOM CO LTD
CHINA TELECOM CORP LTD TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTER
197
36
29
20
16
15
Japan
300 international families
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
NEC CORP
SONY GROUP CORP
NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE
PANASONIC IP MAN CO LTD
SONY CORP
102
28
16
15
11
11
South Korea
153 international families
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RES INST
KOREA AEROSPACE RES INST
LG ELECTRONICS INC
HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD
KIA CORP
33
17
14
12
8
8
France
115 international families
THALES SA
AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE SAS
ESA
EUTELSAT SA
CENTRE NAT ETD SPATIALES
CENTRE NAT DETUDES SPATIALES CNES
44
11
8
7
6
5
Similar capabilities
The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Ground Segment & Tracking, 2015 to 2024: the families counted in both as a share of those counted in either. Each card shows its five largest countries.
National Security
Space Support to Operations
19.1% shared · 1,609 families in both
United States
China
Japan
South Korea
France
2,402
2,136
706
480
437
Strategic Infrastructure
Subsea Cables & International Gateways
17.0% shared · 519 families in both
United States
China
United Kingdom
France
Japan
335
189
129
117
83
Critical Technology
Satellite & Constellation Technologies
16.1% shared · 1,623 families in both
United States
China
Japan
France
South Korea
2,984
2,248
933
651
508
Strategic Infrastructure
Satellites & Orbital Systems
14.9% shared · 1,555 families in both
United States
China
Japan
France
South Korea
3,071
2,252
925
693
509
National Security
Space Domain Awareness & Control
11.7% shared · 289 families in both
Japan
United States
France
Germany
China
145
123
41
26
21
National Security
Electronic Warfare & Spectrum Operations
1.3% shared · 58 families in both
United States
China
Japan
Germany
South Korea
587
328
227
225
120
Strategic Infrastructure
Air Navigation & Traffic Management
1.3% shared · 123 families in both
United States
Japan
China
France
Germany
2,940
1,014
815
738
380
National Security
Imagery & Geospatial Intelligence
1.2% shared · 87 families in both
United States
China
Japan
Germany
South Korea
963
914
891
665
209
Critical Technology
Resilient Positioning & Navigation
1.1% shared · 105 families in both
United States
Japan
China
Germany
France
1,948
1,411
1,349
836
427
Crosswalk
How Ground Segment & Tracking 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B64G3/00 | Observing or tracking cosmonautic vehicles | Observing and tracking spacecraft | 1 | 1 | 2,895 |
| G01S19/02 | Details of the space or ground control segments | Space and ground control segments of satellite navigation | 1 | 1 | 2,381 |
| G01S19/07 | Cooperating elements; Interaction or communication between different cooperating elements or between cooperating elements and receivers providing data for correcting measured positioning data, e.g. DGPS [differential GPS] or ionosphere corrections | Reference stations supplying satellite navigation corrections | 5 | 1 | 11,322 |
| H04B7/18517 | Transmission equipment in earth stations | Transmission equipment in satellite earth stations | 1 | none | 7,449 |
| H04B7/18519 | Operations control, administration or maintenance | Operations control of satellite communication systems | 1 | none | 14,594 |
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 Ground Segment & Tracking: 9 codes on 38,290 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.
| Code | Title | Under entry | How placed | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H04B7/18519 | Operations control, administration or maintenance | H04B7/18519 | In the scheme | 14,594 |
| H04B7/18517 | Transmission equipment in earth stations | H04B7/18517 | In the scheme | 7,449 |
| G01S19/07 | Cooperating elements; Interaction or communication between different cooperating elements or between cooperating elements and receivers providing data for correcting measured positioning data, e.g. DGPS [differential GPS] or ionosphere corrections | G01S19/07 | In the scheme | 4,746 |
| G01S19/071 | DGPS corrections | G01S19/07 | In the scheme | 2,916 |
| B64G3/00 | Observing or tracking cosmonautic vehicles | B64G3/00 | In the scheme | 2,544 |
| G01S19/02 | Details of the space or ground control segments | G01S19/02 | In the scheme | 2,381 |
| G01S19/072 | Ionosphere corrections | G01S19/07 | In the scheme | 2,003 |
| G01S19/073 | Cooperating elements; Interaction or communication between different cooperating elements or between cooperating elements and receivers providing data for correcting measured positioning data, e.g. DGPS [differential GPS] or ionosphere corrections involving a network of fixed stations | G01S19/07 | In the scheme | 1,060 |
| G01S19/074 | Cooperating elements; Interaction or communication between different cooperating elements or between cooperating elements and receivers providing data for correcting measured positioning data, e.g. DGPS [differential GPS] or ionosphere corrections involving a network of fixed stations providing integrity data, e.g. WAAS | G01S19/07 | In the scheme | 597 |