Company Analysis

TMC the metals company Inc. (TMC)

Nasdaq: TMC · Metal Mining · Vancouver, BC · filing with the SEC since 2020
Grade3.9
◀ Past 2.9● Present 3.7▶ Future 5.6
6 est.

Patents

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

3 patents granted to the name 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 TMC the metals company Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.

Patents granted
3
3 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
none
in the last year the record reads
Applications published
1
since 2001, to Dec 31, 2025
Names they are printed under
1
a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'15'16'18
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
Under which name1 counted
DEEPGREEN ENGINEERING, PTE. LTD. a subsidiary
SG, as the owner printed on each patent
3 granted
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
GrantedPatentTitleFieldOwner as printed
Mar 27, 20189,926,206Treatment of manganese-containing materialsMaterials, metallurgyDEEPGREEN ENGINEERING, PTE. LTD.
May 3, 20169,328,400Treatment of manganese-containing materialsMaterials, metallurgyDEEPGREEN ENGINEERING, PTE. LTD.
Mar 15, 20169,284,627Process for recovering metal values from oxides of manganese-containing materialsMaterials, metallurgyDEEPGREEN ENGINEERING, PTE. LTD.
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
PublishedApplicationTitleFieldOwner as printed
Jun 4, 20152015/0152524TREATMENT OF MANGANESE-CONTAINING MATERIALSMaterials, metallurgyDEEPGREEN ENGINEERING, PTE. LTD. · patent 9,328,400 granted from it

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 TMC · research, not advice