Company Analysis

Lithium Americas Corp. (LAC)

NYSE: LAC · Metal Mining · Vancouver · filing with the SEC since 2023
Grade5.3
◀ Past 5.6● Present 5.0▶ Future 5.4
7 est.

Patents

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

1 patent granted to the 3 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 Lithium Americas Corp.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
1
1 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
1
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
4
1 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
3
a subsidiary, its own name
By yearGrantedApplications published
'22'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Materials, metallurgy1
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name3 counted
Lithium Nevada Corporation a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
3 published
Lithium Americas Corporation its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
1 published
Lithium Nevada Corp. 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
Jan 7, 202512,188,107Method of lithium extraction from sedimentary clayMaterials, metallurgyLithium Nevada Corp.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jan 9, 20252025/0011899METHOD OF LITHIUM EXTRACTION FROM SEDIMENTARY CLAYMaterials, metallurgyLithium Nevada Corporation
Jul 18, 20242024/0240280SOLVENT EXTRACTION FOR SELECTIVE LITHIUM RECOVERYMaterials, metallurgyLithium Nevada Corporation
Jul 11, 20242024/0228310MAGNESIUM REMOVAL PROCESSMaterials, metallurgyLithium Nevada Corporation
Jul 14, 20222022/0220578METHOD OF LITHIUM EXTRACTION FROM SEDIMENTARY CLAYMaterials, metallurgyLithium Americas Corporation · patent 12,188,107 granted from it
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Materials, metallurgy 3.

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.

SI Assistanton LAC · research, not advice