Company Analysis

Century Aluminum Company (CENX)

Nasdaq: CENX · Primary Production of Aluminum · Chicago, IL · filing with the SEC since 1996
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Patents

US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026

4 patents granted to the 2 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Century Aluminum Company’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
4
4 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
0
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
2
its own name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'01'02'06'09
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name2 counted
Century Aluminum Company its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
3 granted
0 published
Century Aluminum of West Virginia, Inc. a subsidiary
US, as the owner printed on each patent
1 granted
0 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
May 19, 20097,534,328Electrodes useful for molten salt electrolysis of aluminum oxide to aluminumSurface technology, coatingCentury Aluminum Company
Nov 28, 20067,141,149Electrodes useful for molten salt electrolysis of aluminum oxide to aluminumSurface technology, coatingCentury Aluminum Company
Sep 17, 20026,450,480Bake carbon flue straightenerThermal processes and apparatusCentury Aluminum Company
Mar 13, 20016,199,277Bake carbon flue straightenerThermal processes and apparatusCentury Aluminum of West Virginia, Inc.

A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.

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