- International families
- 719k19.5% of the world
- All families
- 1.41Mhome filings included
- Taken abroad
- 51%120k triadic
- Growth
- 1.0×2020 to 2024 against the five before
Year by year
Patent families of United States 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 United States 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
179k international families
Strategic Infrastructure
167k international families
35,799
33,539
26,914
13,929
13,131
12,267
National Security
6,932 international families
Soft Power
Human Capital
91k international families
Information & Influence
11k international families
Governance & Integrity
8,895 international families
Economic Power
Financial Strength
5,370 international families
Production & Innovation
369k international families
Trade & Investment
8,734 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 United States's part of every country's families in the capability. Leans sets the capability's share of United States'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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing & Advanced Industry | Production & Innovation | 87,628 | 17.4% | 2 of 40 | 0.9× | 0.8× | |
| Service Delivery & Coverage | Human Capital | 84,023 | 32.1% | 1 of 40 | 1.6× | 1.0× | |
| Physical Health & Longevity | Human Capital | 77,497 | 37.7% | 1 of 40 | 1.9× | 1.2× | |
| Production Systems | Strategic Infrastructure | 60,107 | 16.7% | 2 of 40 | 0.9× | 0.8× | |
| Mobile & Wireless Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 59,761 | 22.9% | 2 of 40 | 1.2× | 1.2× | |
| AI Tools & Applications | Strategic Infrastructure | 59,104 | 25.9% | 1 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.4× | |
| Advanced Wireless Communication | Critical Technology | 57,368 | 22.5% | 2 of 40 | 1.2× | 1.2× | |
| Foundational & Process Industries | Production & Innovation | 55,479 | 17.7% | 2 of 40 | 0.9× | 0.9× | |
| Applied AI & Advanced Analytics | Critical Technology | 52,577 | 25.4% | 1 of 40 | 1.3× | 1.3× | |
| Advanced Therapeutics, Vaccines & Medical Countermeasures | Critical Technology | 35,382 | 46.5% | 1 of 40 | 2.4× | 1.3× | |
| Machine Learning & Foundation Models | Critical Technology | 32,358 | 30.1% | 1 of 40 | 1.5× | 2.0× | |
| Synthetic Biology & Genetic Engineering | Critical Technology | 31,378 | 42.2% | 1 of 40 | 2.2× | 1.3× | |
| Data Resources | Strategic Infrastructure | 28,809 | 31.3% | 1 of 40 | 1.6× | 0.8× | |
| Agrifood & Primary Production | Production & Innovation | 28,708 | 22.4% | 1 of 40 | 1.1× | 0.9× | |
| Core & Backbone Networks | Strategic Infrastructure | 26,336 | 25.9% | 1 of 40 | 1.3× | 0.8× | |
| Biomanufacturing | Critical Technology | 25,142 | 35.4% | 1 of 40 | 1.8× | 1.0× | |
| Protective Cybersecurity Technologies | Critical Technology | 24,476 | 31.4% | 1 of 40 | 1.6× | 1.0× | |
| Health Infrastructure | Strategic Infrastructure | 24,406 | 30.6% | 1 of 40 | 1.6× | 1.2× | |
| Services Economy | Production & Innovation | 24,048 | 28.8% | 1 of 40 | 1.5× | 1.3× | |
| Data Centres, Compute & Cloud | Strategic Infrastructure | 23,300 | 33.7% | 1 of 40 | 1.7× | 0.9× | |
| Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication | Critical Technology | 23,299 | 16.6% | 2 of 40 | 0.9× | 1.0× | |
| Digital Economy Adoption | Production & Innovation | 21,362 | 29.0% | 1 of 40 | 1.5× | 0.8× | |
| Privacy, Identity & Trust Technologies | Critical Technology | 20,167 | 28.4% | 1 of 40 | 1.5× | 0.9× | |
| Genomics & Biological Data | Critical Technology | 17,818 | 44.8% | 1 of 40 | 2.3× | 1.1× | |
| Oil & Gas Extraction | Strategic Infrastructure | 17,083 | 45.0% | 1 of 40 | 2.3× | 0.7× |
By domain and applicant
International patent families, 2015 to 2024. A family counts once in each domain it reaches.
Domains of the framework
Critical Technology
Strategic Infrastructure
Human Capital
Information & Influence
Governance & Integrity
Trade & Investment
National Security
Financial Strength
327,799
327,138
168,837
21,771
18,824
18,115
13,886
11,600
Largest applicants
QUALCOMM INC
FORD GLOBAL TECH LLC
INTEL CORP
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
APPLE INC
GM GLOBAL TECH OPERATIONS LLC
GOOGLE LLC
HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT CO
GEN ELECTRIC
MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC
28,409
14,737
14,323
13,182
10,741
10,151
9,336
8,362
7,783
6,787