Mobile Driving Licence & eID Patents: Who Leads, Where the Gaps Are 2026
Mobile Driving Licence and eID System Patents: Who Holds the Ground
70.3% concentration. The top 5 of 41 ranked assignees hold 149 of 212 records in scope — a field with a dominant core rather than a wide field of equal competitors. Filings rose from zero in 2017 to a peak of 22 in 2021, then declined to 12 by 2024 — a -45% move over that span. 2025 and 2026 are shown for completeness but are understated by publication lag and should not be read as a trend reversal.
- 1THALES DIS FRANCE SA95
- 2BUNDESDRUCKEREI GMBH18
- 3GIESECKE & DEVRIENT EPAYMENTS GMBH17
- 4HUAWEI TECH CO LTD12
- 5APPLE INC7
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- The complete ranking, not just the top five
- Every IPC branch with its share of the corpus
- The most-cited records, and where claim space is still thin
Common questions on this landscape
Who holds the most patents in mobile driving licence and eID systems?
One assignee leads the 212-record dataset with 95 records, well ahead of the fifth-ranked filer at 7. The top 5 of 41 ranked assignees together hold 149 records, or 70.3% of everything in scope, so the field is concentrated rather than evenly split. Anyone assessing competitive risk in this space should start with that leader’s portfolio before looking at the long tail.
Is mobile driving licence and eID patent filing still growing?
Filing peaked in 2021 at 22 records and had fallen to 12 by 2024, a -45% change over that span. That is not the same as declining relevance: publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so 2025 and 2026 figures are still incomplete and should not be read as a continued drop. The more defensible read is that core claim space filled up quickly after 2021, pushing new filers toward adjacent or narrower claims.
What patent classes cover mobile driving licence technology?
H04L (digital information transmission) appears in 50.0% of the 212 records and G06F (electric digital data processing) in 39.2%, making transmission and processing the two dominant claim types. G06Q (business/commerce processing), H04W (wireless networks) and G06K (data recognition) each cover roughly an eighth to a fifth of records. Physical-hardware classes like G07C (checking devices) and H05K (printed circuits) sit under 7%, indicating comparatively light claim coverage on the reader and checkpoint hardware side.
Disclaimer. This analysis is based on Patsnap Eureka data drawn from a limited snapshot of global patent records and is provided for general information and reference only. Patent data carries inherent limitations — recent filings are under-counted because of publication lag, counts may be on a record or family basis, classification and applicant-name data may contain errors or duplicates, and the underlying search query defines the scope shown — so the analysis may be incomplete or inaccurate and may not reflect the full technology landscape.
Nothing here is an exhaustive prior-art, novelty, freedom-to-operate or validity search, nor does it constitute legal, financial or professional advice, and it should not be relied upon as such. Verify independently and review with qualified patent and legal professionals before acting on it.
Method: Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Mobile Driving Licence and eID Systems covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish. Every share divides by all records in scope. Data: Patsnap Eureka. See the full landscape report.