- International families
- 3,9150.1% of the world
- All families
- 4,839home filings included
- Taken abroad
- 81%1,042 triadic
- Growth
- 0.8×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of Luxembourg origin by the year of the earliest filing, 2000 to 2025; 2025 is a part year, still filling in.
Source: Global Institute for National Capability (GINC), 2026. Underlying patents from 107 patent offices, IFI CLAIMS and Google
Innovation and National Capability
The nine domains of the National Capability Framework, each with the capabilities in which Luxembourg has the most international patent families, in the period chosen. 2025 is a part year and 2026 has barely begun. Select a capability for its page.
Hard Power
Critical Technology
492 international families
Strategic Infrastructure
821 international families
National Security
11 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
194 international families
Information & Influence
32 international families
Governance & Integrity
46 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
15 international families
Production & Innovation
1,758 international families
Trade & Investment
12 international families
Where its patents run deepest
International patent families, 2015 to 2024, in each capability of the National Capability Framework. Share of world is Luxembourg's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of Luxembourg's families against its share of the world's: 2.0× means twice the world's weight. Growth compares the latest five full years with the five before.
| 2000 to 2025 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 952 | 0.3% | 26 of 40 | 2.9× | 1.3× | |
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 918 | 0.2% | 25 of 40 | 1.7× | 0.5× | |
| Materials & Inputs | Strategic Infrastructure | 537 | 1.4% | 10 of 40 | 13× | 1.4× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 448 | 0.1% | 26 of 40 | 1.2× | 0.6× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 334 | 0.1% | 30 of 40 | 1.2× | 0.6× | |
| Processing & Refining | Strategic Infrastructure | 197 | 0.8% | 21 of 40 | 7.4× | 2.1× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 156 | 0.1% | 37 of 40 | 1.1× | 0.9× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 153 | 0.1% | 36 of 40 | 0.7× | 0.4× | |
| Functional Materials & Coatings | Critical Technology | 119 | 0.4% | 18 of 40 | 3.6× | 0.5× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 103 | 0.0% | 35 of 40 | 0.5× | 1.1× | |
| Structural & Composite Materials | Critical Technology | 99 | 0.4% | 20 of 40 | 3.9× | 0.6× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 97 | 0.0% | 35 of 40 | 0.4× | 0.9× | |
| Hydrogen, Ammonia & Sustainable Fuels | Critical Technology | 90 | 0.2% | 26 of 40 | 2.2× | 6.5× | |
| Storage & Fuel Supply | Strategic Infrastructure | 89 | 0.2% | 29 of 40 | 1.7× | 1.3× | |
| Semiconductor Equipment & Materials | Critical Technology | 80 | 0.1% | 19 of 40 | 0.8× | 0.1× | |
| Human-Machine Interfaces | Critical Technology | 79 | 0.2% | 24 of 40 | 1.5× | 0.5× | |
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 79 | 0.0% | 31 of 40 | 0.3× | 0.8× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 78 | 0.0% | 30 of 40 | 0.3× | 0.7× | |
| Additive & Precision Manufacturing | Critical Technology | 76 | 0.2% | 27 of 40 | 1.6× | 1.7× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 76 | 0.1% | 33 of 40 | 0.9× | 0.9× | |
| Core & Backbone Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 68 | 0.1% | 31 of 40 | 0.6× | 0.5× | |
| Batteries & Energy Storage | Critical Technology | 67 | 0.1% | 29 of 40 | 0.5× | 1.9× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 67 | 0.1% | 32 of 40 | 0.8× | 0.7× | |
| Protective Cybersecurity Technologies | Critical Technology | 65 | 0.1% | 30 of 40 | 0.8× | 0.8× | |
| Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies | Critical Technology | 62 | 0.1% | 31 of 40 | 0.8× | 1.1× |
By domain and applicant
International patent families, 2015 to 2024. A family counts once in each domain it reaches.
Domains of the framework
Strategic Infrastructure
Critical Technology
Human Capital
Governance & Integrity
Information & Influence
Trade & Investment
Financial Strength
National Security
1,676
1,073
519
84
81
52
43
35
Largest applicants
ARCELORMITTAL
LUXEMBOURG INST SCIENCE & TECH LIST
PHINIA DELPHI LUXEMBOURG SARL
DELPHI INT OPERATIONS LUXEMBOURG SARL
IEE SA
LOEWENSTEIN MEDICAL TECH SA
SMR PATENTS SARL
WURTH PAUL SA
DELPHI TECH IP LTD
FLOORING IND LTD SARL
699
218
172
147
139
139
102
100
99
92