Governance & Integrity

National Risk Assessment & Early Warning

The capacity to see shock coming: a standing all-hazards national risk picture, the warning systems built on it and the honesty to publish what the assessment finds. One of the capabilities of National Resilience & Crisis Management.

International families: 7,4252015 to 2024
Leading country: United States1.6× the next
All families: 44khome 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

United States

Japan

South Korea

China

Germany

France

Sweden

Canada

Taiwan

Finland

2,018

1,258

1,068

1,030

432

182

156

113

104


1	United States	2,018	27.2%	0.7×	4,601
2	Japan	1,258	16.9%	1.0×	3,647
3	South Korea	1,068	14.4%	1.3×	7,721
4	China	1,030	13.9%	1.9×	24,095
5	Germany	432	5.8%	0.9×	810
6	France	182	2.5%	0.7×	273
7	Sweden	182	2.5%	0.8×	193
8	Canada	156	2.1%	0.8×	223
9	Taiwan	113	1.5%	0.7×	284
10	Finland	104	1.4%	1.1×	112
11	Australia	80	1.1%	1.0×	116
12	Netherlands	72	1.0%	0.7×	93
13	United Kingdom	67	0.9%	0.9×	96
14	India	67	0.9%	1.2×	139
15	Italy	65	0.9%	1.0×	151
16	Switzerland	61	0.8%	0.8×	74
17	Singapore	60	0.8%	1.9×	78
18	Israel	56	0.8%	0.6×	77
19	Türkiye	40	0.5%	3.4×	124
20	Austria	30	0.4%	1.0×	39
21	Spain	28	0.4%	1.0×	48
22	Norway	26	0.4%	0.3×	33
23	Denmark	19	0.3%	0.6×	23
24	Russia	16	0.2%	1.0×	249
25	South Africa	16	0.2%	0.3×	16
26	Ireland	15	0.2%	0.5×	24
27	Luxembourg	15	0.2%	4.0×	19
28	Belgium	14	0.2%	0.6×	17
29	Poland	14	0.2%	0.6×	25
30	Hong Kong	12	0.2%	1.0×	19
31	Saudi Arabia	12	0.2%	0.7×	30
32	Malaysia	12	0.2%	0.2×	21
33	Brazil	10	0.1%	0.4×	37
34	Portugal	6	0.1%	2.0×	6
35	New Zealand	5	0.1%	0.3×	15
36	Cayman Islands	5	0.1%	0.0×	6
37	Mexico	4	0.1%	0.3×	31
38	Czechia	3	0.0%	2.0×	9
39	Hungary	2	0.0%	0.0×	6
40	Liechtenstein	1	0.0%	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 National Risk Assessment & Early Warning. Names are as held in the source and are not consolidated across subsidiaries.

Global

7,425 international families

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD · South Korea

QUALCOMM INC · United States

LG ELECTRONICS INC · South Korea

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC · United States

NEC CORP · Japan

ERICSSON TELEFON AB L M · Sweden

260

169

146

144

142

120

United States

2,018 international families

QUALCOMM INC

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC

HONEYWELL INT INC

FORD GLOBAL TECH LLC

APPLE INC

GM GLOBAL TECH OPERATIONS LLC

160

139

102

Japan

1,258 international families

NEC CORP

TOYOTA MOTOR CO LTD

TOYOTA MOTOR CORP

MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP

PANASONIC IP MAN CO LTD

NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE

134

118

South Korea

1,068 international families

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

LG ELECTRONICS INC

HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD

NAT INSTITUTE OF METEOROLOGICAL SCIENCES

KIA CORP

KIA MOTORS CORP

260

146

China

1,030 international families

HUAWEI TECH CO LTD

ZTE CORP

VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO LTD

BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO LTD

GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP LTD

CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECH CO LTD

107

Germany

China

Japan

South Korea

Germany

2,275

1,526

1,353

852

397

Crosswalk

How National Risk Assessment & Early Warning is matched to the patent classifications. The entries below were chosen for it; each stands for itself and everything beneath it in the scheme, 28 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
G01W	Meteorology	Meteorological instruments and weather forecasting	16	14	73,975
G01V1/01	Measuring or predicting earthquakes	Measuring or predicting earthquakes	1	1	4,392
G08B21/10	Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons responsive to calamitous events, e.g. tornados or earthquakes	Alarms for calamities such as tornados and earthquakes	1	1	20,811
G08B27/00	Alarm systems in which the alarm condition is signalled from a central station to a plurality of substations	Warning systems signalling from a centre to many stations	6	1	13,149
G08B31/00	Predictive alarm systems characterised by extrapolation or other computation using updated historic data	Predictive alarm systems using historic data	1	1	28,561
H04W4/90	Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]	Mobile network emergency services and public warning	1	1	48,904
H04H20/59	Arrangements specially adapted for specific applications, e.g. for traffic information or for mobile receivers for emergency or urgency	Emergency broadcast arrangements	1	1	6,027

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 National Risk Assessment & Early Warning: 27 codes on 161,732 documents. The full crosswalk is in the cpc-to-capability.csv download.

Code	Title	Under entry	How placed	Documents
H04W4/90	Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]	H04W4/90	In the scheme	48,904
G08B31/00	Predictive alarm systems characterised by extrapolation or other computation using updated historic data	G08B31/00	In the scheme	20,235
G01W1/10	Devices for predicting weather conditions	G01W	In the scheme	15,127
G08B21/10	Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons responsive to calamitous events, e.g. tornados or earthquakes	G08B21/10	In the scheme	12,845
G01W1/02	Instruments for indicating weather conditions by measuring two or more variables, e.g. humidity, pressure, temperature, cloud cover or wind speed	G01W	In the scheme	10,302
G01W1/14	Rainfall or precipitation gauges	G01W	In the scheme	8,521
G01W1/00	Meteorology	G01W	In the scheme	6,867
H04H20/59	Arrangements specially adapted for specific applications, e.g. for traffic information or for mobile receivers for emergency or urgency	H04H20/59	In the scheme	4,604
G01V1/01	Measuring or predicting earthquakes	G01V1/01	In the scheme	4,392
G08B27/00	Alarm systems in which the alarm condition is signalled from a central station to a plurality of substations	G08B27/00	In the scheme	3,455
G08B27/001	Signalling to an emergency team, e.g. firemen	G08B27/00	In the scheme	2,907
G01W1/08	Adaptations of balloons, missiles, or aircraft for meteorological purposes; Radiosondes	G01W	In the scheme	2,799
G08B27/006	Alarm systems in which the alarm condition is signalled from a central station to a plurality of substations with transmission via telephone network	G08B27/00	In the scheme	2,479
G01W2203/00	Real-time site-specific personalized weather information, e.g. nowcasting	G01W	In the scheme	1,993
G08B27/005	Alarm systems in which the alarm condition is signalled from a central station to a plurality of substations with transmission via computer network	G08B27/00	In the scheme	1,962
G01W2201/00	Weather detection, monitoring or forecasting for establishing the amount of global warming	G01W	In the scheme	1,780
G08B27/008	Alarm systems in which the alarm condition is signalled from a central station to a plurality of substations with transmission via TV or radio broadcast	G08B27/00	In the scheme	1,670
G01W1/06	Instruments for indicating weather conditions by measuring two or more variables, e.g. humidity, pressure, temperature, cloud cover or wind speed giving a combined indication of weather conditions	G01W	In the scheme	1,662
G01W1/18	Testing or calibrating meteorological apparatus	G01W	In the scheme	1,440
G01W2001/006	Main server receiving weather information from several sub-stations	G01W	In the scheme	1,405
G01W1/16	Measuring atmospheric potential differences, e.g. due to electrical charges in clouds	G01W	In the scheme	1,296
G01W1/12	Sunshine duration recorders	G01W	In the scheme	1,268
G01W2001/003	Clear air turbulence detection or forecasting, e.g. for aircrafts	G01W	In the scheme	1,025
G01W1/04	Instruments for indicating weather conditions by measuring two or more variables, e.g. humidity, pressure, temperature, cloud cover or wind speed giving only separate indications of the variables measured	G01W	In the scheme	1,003
G01W1/17	Catathermometers for measuring "cooling value" related either to weather conditions or to comfort of other human environment	G01W	In the scheme	706
G08B27/003	Signalling to neighbouring houses	G08B27/00	In the scheme	676
G01W1/11	Weather houses or other ornaments for indicating humidity	G01W	In the scheme	409

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. Captures hazard monitoring and public warning technology, not the national risk assessment; predictive alarms include industrial uses, and wider seismology is left out because it is mostly oil prospecting. The crosswalk is a first pass that nobody has reviewed.

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