- International families
- 4142015 to 2024
- Leading country
- Germany1.2× the next
- All families
- 1,523home filings included
- Over five years
- Steady2020 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
Germany
United States
Japan
Israel
United Kingdom
Sweden
France
China
Russia
South Korea
92
75
47
41
28
23
17
16
13
10
| 2000 to 2025 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 92 | 22.2% | 1.0× | 129 | |
| 2 | United States | 75 | 18.1% | 0.6× | 176 | |
| 3 | Japan | 47 | 11.4% | 1.6× | 102 | |
| 4 | Israel | 41 | 9.9% | 1.9× | 47 | |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 28 | 6.8% | 1.0× | 37 | |
| 6 | Sweden | 23 | 5.6% | 0.5× | 23 | |
| 7 | France | 17 | 4.1% | 1.8× | 22 | |
| 8 | China | 16 | 3.9% | 1.7× | 613 | |
| 9 | Russia | 13 | 3.1% | 3.3× | 78 | |
| 10 | South Korea | 10 | 2.4% | 1.5× | 204 | |
| 11 | Türkiye | 9 | 2.2% | 2.0× | 18 | |
| 12 | Switzerland | 7 | 1.7% | 0.2× | 12 | |
| 13 | Canada | 4 | 1.0% | 0.3× | 6 | |
| 14 | Italy | 3 | 0.7% | 0.5× | 6 | |
| 15 | Spain | 3 | 0.7% | 0.5× | 4 | |
| 16 | Denmark | 3 | 0.7% | – | 3 | |
| 17 | Singapore | 3 | 0.7% | 2.0× | 3 | |
| 18 | Finland | 2 | 0.5% | – | 2 | |
| 19 | South Africa | 2 | 0.5% | 0.0× | 2 | |
| 20 | Portugal | 2 | 0.5% | – | 2 | |
| 21 | Taiwan | 1 | 0.2% | – | 3 | |
| 22 | Austria | 1 | 0.2% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 23 | India | 1 | 0.2% | – | 1 | |
| 24 | Belgium | 1 | 0.2% | 0.0× | 1 | |
| 25 | Norway | 1 | 0.2% | – | 1 | |
| 26 | Brazil | 1 | 0.2% | – | 1 | |
| 27 | Australia | 0 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 28 | Poland | 0 | 0.0% | – | 8 | |
| 29 | Saudi Arabia | 0 | 0.0% | – | 1 | |
| 30 | Hungary | 0 | 0.0% | – | 3 |
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 Integrated Air & Missile Defence. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.
Global
414 international families
DIEHL DEFENCE GMBH & CO KG · Germany
SAAB AB · Sweden
MBDA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH · Germany
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP · Japan
RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH · Germany
THALES SA · France
26
18
16
15
15
13
Germany
92 international families
DIEHL DEFENCE GMBH & CO KG
MBDA DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
RHEINMETALL WAFFE MUNITION GMBH
HENSOLDT SENSORS GMBH
DIEHL BGT DEFENCE GMBH & CO KG
AIRBUS DEFENCE & SPACE GMBH
26
16
15
9
4
3
United States
75 international families
RAYTHEON CO
BAE SYS INF & ELECT SYS INTEG
SARCOS CORP
AIRSPACE SYSTEMS INC
AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES CORP
SANMINA CORP
9
7
6
3
3
3
Japan
47 international families
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
MITSUBISHI HEAVY IND LTD
NEC CORP
TAKEHISA KIWAMU
DISCO ABRASIVE SYSTEMS LTD
DISCO CORP
15
10
9
2
1
1
Israel
41 international families
ELTA SYSTEMS LTD
RAFAEL ADVANCED DEFENSE SYSTEMS LTD
ISRAEL AEROSPACE IND LTD
ASSAF MONSA CHERMON
COHEN DAVID
D FEND SOLUTIONS AD LTD
6
6
4
3
3
3
United Kingdom
28 international families
BAE SYSTEMS PLC
Leonardo UK Ltd
MBDA UK LTD
ARMSTRONG NEIL ROCKCLIFFE
CROSS JAMES EDWARD
DOWN CHRISTOPHER DAVID
11
4
3
2
2
2
Similar capabilities
The nine capabilities that share the most international patent families with Integrated Air & Missile Defence, 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
Counter-Uncrewed & Low-Altitude Defence
61.2% shared · 401 families in both
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Israel
156
135
72
56
50
Strategic Infrastructure
Military Bases & Installations
24.9% shared · 389 families in both
United States
Germany
South Korea
United Kingdom
Japan
353
218
111
100
84
National Security
Long-Range Strike
9.4% shared · 107 families in both
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Israel
278
159
88
77
44
National Security
Land Fires
5.9% shared · 102 families in both
United States
Germany
France
United Kingdom
South Korea
357
232
127
113
93
National Security
Battlefield Aviation & Uncrewed Systems
5.6% shared · 36 families in both
United States
South Korea
Germany
Israel
United Kingdom
68
29
23
23
22
National Security
Electronic Warfare & Spectrum Operations
4.6% shared · 110 families in both
United States
China
Japan
Germany
South Korea
587
328
227
225
120
Critical Technology
Directed Energy Technologies
4.2% shared · 86 families in both
United States
Japan
Germany
China
United Kingdom
479
386
232
150
99
National Security
Control of the Air
4.0% shared · 36 families in both
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Türkiye
France
176
57
50
43
41
National Security
Standing Force Generation & Training
2.1% shared · 23 families in both
United States
Germany
South Korea
United Kingdom
Canada
217
90
58
38
30
Crosswalk
How Integrated Air & Missile Defence is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F41H11/02 | Anti-aircraft or anti-guided missile or anti-torpedo defence installations or systems | Anti-aircraft, anti-missile and anti-torpedo defence systems | 2 | 2 | 6,794 |
| F41G5/08 | Ground-based tracking-systems for aerial targets | Ground-based tracking of aerial targets for fire control | 1 | 1 | 1,747 |
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 Integrated Air & Missile Defence: 3 codes on 8,273 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.
| Code | Title | Under entry | How placed | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F41H11/02 | Anti-aircraft or anti-guided missile or anti-torpedo defence installations or systems | F41H11/02 | In the scheme | 5,931 |
| F41G5/08 | Ground-based tracking-systems for aerial targets | F41G5/08 | In the scheme | 1,747 |
| F41H11/04 | Aerial barrages | F41H11/02 | In the scheme | 595 |