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Patent Landscape · Digital Identity & CredentialsMobile 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.
- Filing peaked in 2021 at 22, then fell to 12 by 2024. a -45% swing over that three-year span, with 2025-26 figures still filling in under the usual publication lag.
- H04L digital transmission touches half the field. 50.0% of records, while G07C checking devices and H05K printed-circuit claims sit under 7% — a visible gap between the crowded core and the credential hardware around it.
212
Published Records
70%
Top-5 Share of All Records
-45%
Filing Growth 2021→2024
US
Leading Jurisdiction
Filing growth compares 2021 (22 records) with 2024 (12) — a three-year span. 2024 is the most recent year we treat as complete: publication lags filing by roughly 18 months, so 2025 onwards are still filling in and any growth rate that ends there would understate the field. Top-5 share is the combined record count of the five largest assignees divided by all 212 records in scope (CR5), not by the ranked leaders only.
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Field Overview
What this patent landscape covers
Mobile driving licence and eID systems sit at the intersection of secure hardware, offline cryptographic verification and government-grade identity credentialing. The 212 records in scope span secure element provisioning, device binding of a credential to a specific phone, selective attribute release for privacy-preserving disclosure, and revocation checking for credentials that must remain valid — or be pulled — without a live network connection.
Coverage runs from 2015 through the 2026-07-31 cut-off, with the earliest meaningful filing activity from 2017 onward. Because publication trails filing by roughly 18 months, the most recent one to two years in any chart will read low and should not be mistaken for a genuine slowdown.
Filing activity and technology composition, 2017–2026
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Assignee ranking and totals. 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.Run this in Eureka MCP
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The Numbers
Filing trends and technology composition
Two views of the same 212-record dataset: how filing volume has moved year over year, and which IPC subclasses the claims actually sit in.
Filing trend, 2017-2026
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.
IPC subclass composition
H04L (digital information transmission) appears in 50.0% of the 212 records and G06F (electric digital data processing) in 39.2%, confirming that most claims are written as data-transmission and processing inventions rather than as physical credential hardware. G07F, G07C and H05K — vending/kiosk interfaces, checking devices and printed-circuit assemblies — each sit under 12%, marking the edge of the crowded core.
Shares are the percentage of the 212 records in scope. A patent can carry several IPC classes, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
Source: Patsnap Eureka. 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.
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Representative and most-cited filings
Representative Filing
US11038675B2 — Electronic voting using secure electronic identity device
THALES DIS FRANCE SAS
Describes an electronic voting scheme built on a secure electronic identity card: a registration authority and an election authority each establish a cross-domain unlinkable pseudonym with the card, the registration authority writes a vote-eligibility attribute onto it, and the election authority retrieves the second pseudonym to authorise a vote without linking voter identity to ballot.Assigned to Thales DIS France SAS, published 2021-06-15.
Most-cited records in this dataset
| # | Publication no. | Patent title | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | US20200084202A1 | Attestation token sharing in edge computing environments | 186 |
| 2 | US20120075442A1 | Handheld portable device for verification of travel and personal documents, reading of biometric data and ide… | 88 |
| 3 | US20120159599A1 | Personalized Multifunctional Access Device Possessing an Individualized Form of Authenticating and Controllin… | 81 |
| 4 | US20160219039A1 | Mobile Authentication Method and System for Providing Authenticated Access to Internet-Sukpported Services an… | 71 |
| 5 | US20210321263A1 | Checkpoint identity verification on validation using mobile identification credential | 23 |
| 6 | US20210377742A1 | Checkpoint identity verification using mobile identification credential | 22 |
| 7 | US20160006566A1 | Reading of an attribute from an id token | 22 |
| 8 | US11425111B2 | Attestation token sharing in edge computing environments | 21 |
| 9 | WO2011028874A1 | A personalized multifunctional access device possessing an individualized form of authenticating and controll… | 18 |
| 10 | US20220309502A1 | Protocol and gateway for communicating secure transaction data | 17 |
Citation counts accumulate over time inside this searched corpus, so older filings are structurally favoured — treat rank here as a signal of influence on later filers, not of current commercial weight.
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Source: Patsnap Eureka. Citation counts and representative records. 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.Run this in Eureka MCP
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What the data means for filing strategy
Three findings that shape where a new filing is likely to clear prior art versus land in already-dense claim space.
Concentration
70.3%
of 212 records held by top 5 of 41 assignees
A dominant core, not an open field
With the top 5 assignees holding 149 of 212 records and the top 10 holding 175 (82.5%), most of the claim space near secure-element provisioning and device binding is already occupied by a small group. New entrants filing directly against those primitives should expect dense prior art review.
Based on the 41-company ranked assignee list
Momentum
22 → 12
peak-year to 2024 filings, -45%
Post-peak filing, not post-peak relevance
Filing peaked in 2021 at 22 records and had fallen to 12 by 2024, a -45% move. That decline reads as claim-space saturation around the core credential-verification mechanics rather than declining interest, since standards activity around mobile driving licences has continued over the same period.
2025-26 figures excluded from the growth calculation due to publication lag
Technology mix
50.0% vs 6.1%
H04L share vs G07C share of 212 records
Transmission and processing dominate over physical checking hardware
H04L (digital transmission) and G06F (data processing) cover half and nearly two-fifths of records respectively, while G07C (time/attendance and checking devices) sits at just 6.1% and H05K (printed circuits) at 3.8%. The gap suggests physical checkpoint and reader-side hardware claims are comparatively thin.
IPC shares sum above 100% because records can carry multiple classes
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Co-filing patterns
| Assignee | Co-assignee | Shared families |
|---|---|---|
| VAGO ANDRAS | SZOKE THOMAS | 8 |
| VAGO ANDRAS | FOZZATI DANIEL | 8 |
| SZOKE THOMAS | FOZZATI DANIEL | 8 |
| HID Global CID Ltd. | TOPPAN SECURITY SAS | 2 |
| VAGO ANDRAS | INNOVATION IN MOTION | 2 |
| SZOKE THOMAS | INNOVATION IN MOTION | 2 |
| FOZZATI DANIEL | INNOVATION IN MOTION | 2 |
| Sign Action Inc. | MASARYK MICHAL | 2 |
Ten co-assignee pairs appear in the dataset, with three individual-inventor pairings each co-filing 8 records together — a pattern more typical of a small independent filing group than of a large corporate co-development programme.
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Co-assignee relationships and derived observations. 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.Run this in Eureka MCP
Competitive Landscape
Who is filing, and where the gate sits
The ranking covers 41 assignees behind the 212 records in scope. A single leader holds a wide margin over the field, with volume dropping quickly toward a long tail of smaller and individual filers.
Leader
95 records
vs 7 at fifth place
One filer sets the pace by a wide margin
The leading assignee's record count is more than an order of magnitude above the fifth-ranked filer, which sits at 7. That gap indicates a single company treats this as core IP territory rather than an adjacent filing area.
Leader vs. 5th place, 212-record dataset
Mid-field
5 records
at tenth place
A steep drop-off after the top ten
Filing counts fall from 95 at the top to 5 by tenth place, and the top 10 combined account for 82.5% of all 212 records. Everyone outside that group is filing in low single digits, which is where niche or defensive filings tend to sit.
Top 10 = 175 of 212 records
Long tail
31 assignees
outside the top 10, of 41 ranked total
Individual inventors appear alongside corporates
Several individually-named inventors co-file repeatedly with each other rather than through a corporate assignee, forming tight two- and three-way filing clusters. That pattern is distinct from the large corporate filers at the top of the ranking and worth checking separately when clearing a specific claim.
Strongest co-assignee pairs each share 8 records
Recent-year filing momentum by assignee
| Assignee | Recent year | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| Thales DIS France SA | 0 | -100% |
| Bundesdruckerei GmbH | 0 | — |
| Giesecke+Devrient GmbH | 0 | — |
| Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | 0 | — |
| HID Global CID Ltd. | 0 | — |
| VAGO ANDRAS | 0 | — |
| SZOKE THOMAS | 0 | — |
| FOZZATI DANIEL | 0 | — |
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Assignee-level momentum. 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.Run this in Eureka MCP
Next Steps
Where to take this analysis
The dataset points to specific follow-up questions depending on whether the goal is freedom-to-operate, portfolio strategy or identifying a filing gap.
Check freedom-to-operate against the top filers
With 70.3% of records held by 5 assignees, a freedom-to-operate review should start with those portfolios before broader prior-art searching.
Run an FTO search in EurekaMap the under-claimed branches in detail
G07C, G07F and H05K claims sit well below the H04L and G06F core — worth a targeted search before drafting in those areas.
Explore white space in EurekaTrack post-2024 filings as they publish
2025-26 filings are still arriving under the normal publication lag; revisit the trend once a full year of data lands.
Set up monitoring in EurekaSource: Patsnap Eureka. Forward-looking reading of the same dataset. 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.Run this in Eureka MCP
FAQ
Common questions on this landscape
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.
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.
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.
US11038675B2, assigned to Thales DIS France SAS and published 2021-06-15, claims an electronic voting scheme built around a secure electronic identity card. The mechanism uses cross-domain unlinkable pseudonyms established separately with a registration authority and an election authority, so a vote-eligibility attribute can be written to the card and later checked without linking the voter's identity to their ballot. It is a specific application of secure-identity-card infrastructure to voting, not a general claim over identity cards or offline verification as such.
The clearest gaps sit in classes with comparatively low filing density: G07C checking/attendance devices (6.1% of 212 records) and H05K printed-circuit assemblies (3.8%), alongside G07F vending and kiosk interfaces (11.3%). These sit adjacent to the crowded H04L/G06F core of transmission and processing claims, suggesting reader-side hardware, physical checkpoint integration and secure-element packaging are less contested than the core verification protocol claims. A first filing there would need to tie physical hardware design to the offline verification flow rather than re-claim the flow itself.
Answers are grounded in the same dataset. 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.Run this in Eureka MCP
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