Discover Financial Services patents

Discover Financial Services holds 89 patents in our database, with recent filings and technology areas summarized below.

Company patent statistics
MetricValue
Total patents89
Recent patents69
First publicationApr 28, 2015
Latest publicationOct 2, 2025

Filing trend

Year-over-year patent counts for this assignee.

Filing activity over the last five years is rapidly growing.

Patents filed per year
YearPatents
20151
20161
20171
20186
20202
20215
20221
202315
202429
202528
Browse patents by year
YearPatents
20151
20161
20171
20186
20202
20215
20221
202315
202429
202528

Recent patents

Latest publications where this party is an assignee.

Notable patents

Representative or frequently cited publications from precomputed assignee stats.

Technology areas

Mapped technology topics for this assignee.

Company technology slices
TechnologyPatents
Physics76
Electricity19

Frequently asked questions

Answers are generated from the same data shown on this page.

How many patents does Discover Financial Services have in patentsdb?
Discover Financial Services is linked to 89 publications as assignee in our database.
What technology areas does Discover Financial Services patent most?
Top mapped technology areas by patent count: Physics (76); Electricity (19).
Is Discover Financial Services's patent activity growing?
In our data, assignee counts were 29 in 2024 and 28 in 2025 (lower year over year).
What are recent patents assigned to Discover Financial Services?
See the “Recent patents” section above for the latest 5 publications we attribute to this assignee.