Strategic Infrastructure

Housing, Community & Social Services

Housing, community and social services infrastructure comprises public and affordable housing, community facilities and the support systems for social services that improve social welfare and quality of life. One of the capabilities of Social Infrastructure.

International families: 4,1792015 to 2024
Leading country: Japan1.2× the next
All families: 22khome 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

Japan

United States

South Korea

China

Germany

Taiwan

United Kingdom

Australia

Canada

India

1,038

891

663

294

154

131


1	Japan	1,038	24.8%	0.6×	5,884
2	United States	891	21.3%	0.6×	1,657
3	South Korea	663	15.9%	0.7×	6,594
4	China	294	7.0%	0.4×	4,891
5	Germany	154	3.7%	0.6×	301
6	Taiwan	131	3.1%	0.2×	484
7	United Kingdom	96	2.3%	1.0×	200
8	Australia	88	2.1%	0.8×	179
9	Canada	82	2.0%	1.2×	129
10	India	73	1.7%	3.1×	84
11	France	70	1.7%	0.8×	150
12	Netherlands	62	1.5%	0.3×	86
13	Finland	50	1.2%	0.5×	67
14	Singapore	42	1.0%	0.4×	53
15	Switzerland	40	1.0%	0.7×	51
16	Israel	35	0.8%	1.2×	43
17	Sweden	34	0.8%	0.4×	37
18	Türkiye	33	0.8%	3.1×	66
19	Italy	27	0.6%	0.8×	75
20	Austria	24	0.6%	1.7×	34
21	Spain	24	0.6%	0.8×	40
22	Brazil	22	0.5%	0.7×	77
23	Russia	17	0.4%	0.4×	56
24	Belgium	15	0.4%	0.4×	26
25	New Zealand	15	0.4%	0.5×	19
26	Portugal	13	0.3%	3.3×	17
27	Denmark	12	0.3%	0.5×	19
28	Poland	12	0.3%	3.0×	63
29	South Africa	11	0.3%	0.6×	11
30	Ireland	8	0.2%	0.0×	12
31	Cayman Islands	8	0.2%	0.1×	8
32	Hungary	6	0.1%	1.0×	11
33	Malaysia	5	0.1%	1.5×	7
34	Norway	4	0.1%	1.0×	11
35	Czechia	4	0.1%	1.0×	7
36	Mexico	4	0.1%	0.0×	12
37	Hong Kong	3	0.1%	2.0×	6
38	Luxembourg	1	0.0%	0.0×	2
39	Saudi Arabia	1	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 Housing, Community & Social Services. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.

Global

4,179 international families

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD · South Korea

KONICA MINOLTA INC · Japan

PANASONIC IP MAN CO LTD · Japan

NEC CORP · Japan

KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS NV · Netherlands

FUJITSU LTD · Japan

Japan

1,038 international families

KONICA MINOLTA INC

PANASONIC IP MAN CO LTD

NEC CORP

FUJITSU LTD

HITACHI LTD

TOYOTA MOTOR CO LTD

United States

891 international families

GEN ELECTRIC

3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES CO

BECTON DICKINSON CO

HOFFMANN LA ROCHE

JOHNSON & JOHNSON VISION CARE

APPLE INC

South Korea

663 international families

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

LG ELECTRONICS INC

ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS RES INST

HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD

KIA CORP

IOBED INC

China

294 international families

QIANHAI ANYCHECK INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO

ANYCHECK INFORMATION TECH CO LTD

SHENZHEN BEIWODEKE BIOTECHNOLOGY RES INST CO LTD

TECHCO & CEFON & ANYCHECK E TECHCO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO LTD E

PING AN TECH SHENZHEN CO LTD

SHENZHEN CITY JUNYING CONSTRUCTION TECH LIMITED COMPANY

Germany

China

Japan

South Korea

Taiwan

1,468

1,054

1,039

901

207

Crosswalk

How Housing, Community & Social Services is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 16 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
E04H1/02	Dwelling houses; Buildings for temporary habitation, e.g. summer houses	Dwelling houses and residential buildings	2	2	23,122
E04B1/348	Structures composed of units comprising at least considerable parts of two sides of a room, e.g. box-like or cell-like units closed or in skeleton form	Modular room-sized prefabricated building units	13	1	26,849
G06Q50/22	Social work or social welfare, e.g. community support activities or counselling services	Systems for social work and welfare services	1	1	44,883

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 Housing, Community & Social Services: 16 codes on 63,554 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.

Code	Title	Under entry	How placed	Documents
G06Q50/22	Social work or social welfare, e.g. community support activities or counselling services	G06Q50/22	In the scheme	30,777
E04B1/3483	Elements not integrated in a skeleton the supporting structure consisting of metal	E04B1/348	In the scheme	5,195
E04H1/02	Dwelling houses; Buildings for temporary habitation, e.g. summer houses	E04H1/02	In the scheme	4,678
E04H1/04	Apartment houses arranged in two or more levels	E04H1/02	In the scheme	3,447
E04B1/348	Structures composed of units comprising at least considerable parts of two sides of a room, e.g. box-like or cell-like units closed or in skeleton form	E04B1/348	In the scheme	3,368
E04B1/34869	Elements for special technical purposes, e.g. with a sanitary equipment	E04B1/348	In the scheme	2,922
E04B1/34823	Elements not integrated in a skeleton the supporting structure consisting of concrete	E04B1/348	In the scheme	2,752
E04B1/34815	Elements not integrated in a skeleton	E04B1/348	In the scheme	2,470
E04B1/34807	Elements integrated in a skeleton	E04B1/348	In the scheme	1,841
E04B2001/34892	Means allowing access to the units, e.g. stairs or cantilevered gangways	E04B1/348	In the scheme	1,665
E04B1/34861	Elements not integrated in a skeleton particular arrangement of habitable rooms or their component parts; modular co-ordination	E04B1/348	In the scheme	1,585
E04B1/34838	Elements not integrated in a skeleton the supporting structure consisting of wood	E04B1/348	In the scheme	688
E04B1/34853	Elements not integrated in a skeleton the supporting structure being composed of two or more materials	E04B1/348	In the scheme	657
E04B2001/34884	Structures composed of units comprising at least considerable parts of two sides of a room, e.g. box-like or cell-like units closed or in skeleton form with a sloping or barrel roof creating a living space between several units	E04B1/348	In the scheme	536
E04B2001/34876	Structures composed of units comprising at least considerable parts of two sides of a room, e.g. box-like or cell-like units closed or in skeleton form with a sloping or barrel roof	E04B1/348	In the scheme	530
E04B1/34846	Elements not integrated in a skeleton the supporting structure consisting of other specified material, e.g. of plastics	E04B1/348	In the scheme	443

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 coverage: public and affordable housing is not distinguished from housing in general. The crosswalk is a first pass that nobody has reviewed.

Housing, Community & Social Services

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Country leaderboard

Ten largest

Applicants

Global

Japan

United States

South Korea

China

Germany

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