General Motors Company ("GM") — 1240 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. Today's entity was incorporated in Delaware in 2009 as the successor to General Motors Corporation (founded 1908), which reorganized in bankruptcy in July 2009. GM is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: GM). Its 2024 10-K and 2025 filings report roughly 156,000 employees and annual revenue of about $187.4 billion (2024) and $185.0 billion (2025); market capitalization has recently traded in the $65–75 billion range depending on the date. It is a standalone public company, not a subsidiary.
Operations. GM designs, builds, and sells trucks, SUVs, crossovers, cars, and automotive parts under the Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC brands, with equity stakes in Chinese ventures (Baojun, Wuling). It also produces electric vehicles on its Ultium platform, including battery-cell manufacturing through the Ultium Cells joint venture with LG Energy Solution; provides software-enabled services and subscriptions (OnStar, Super Cruise driver assistance); operates the GM Financial captive lending segment; and runs GM Defense. This is an operating company, not a patent-assertion entity.
Litigation posture. GM is an operating company defending against third-party patent holders. Across tracked data it appears in exactly one case — as a defendant, never as plaintiff (0 plaintiff / 1 defendant). That profile is consistent with a large manufacturer absorbing infringement claims from patent owners rather than asserting its own portfolio.
Notable case. Automotive Technologies International, Inc. v. Delphi Corporation et al. (E.D. Mich., Southern Division, filed 2008‑03‑11) is the sole tracked matter. Plaintiff ATI, associated with inventor David S. Breed, asserted occupant-detection and airbag-sensor patents (including the '945, '516, and '080 patents) against GM entities alongside Ford, Volvo, Hyundai, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, and Fuji Heavy, with Delphi's declaratory-judgment action consolidated into the Michigan case (08‑cv‑11048, 10‑cv‑10647). ATI had also filed related suits against automakers in Texas. In 2011 the district court granted summary judgment on the asserted patents, and the dispute proceeded to a Federal Circuit appeal (No. 2011‑1292).