AC Gravity LLC is confirmed by a live Alabama Secretary of State record to still be a registered, active business as of 2026

The Alabama Secretary of State's live business-entity database, accessed directly (not via an aggregator) on 2026-07-21, shows an active record for AC Gravity LLC: "Status: Exists," "Entity Type: Foreign Limited Liability Company," "Formation Date: 01/23/2001," "Qualification Date: 02/13/2001," "Registered Agent: LI, NING DR," "Principal Address: 511 SPARKMAN DR HUNTSVILLE, AL 35816." The registered agent's name ties the filing directly to physicist Ning Li rather than merely to a same-named entity.

This is a Tier 1 government primary record, read directly rather than through Wikipedia's Tier-4 summary, and it independently confirms the "still a registered, active business" component of the shell company's story — a sub-claim the original claim-note carried on Wikipedia's authority alone. It does not, on its own, confirm the DoD grant amount, award date, or publication outcome; corporate registration and federal grant history live in separate record systems, and those parts of the story remain flagged pending a primary read of the underlying DoD document (see question-verify-ac-gravity-llc-dod-grant-record).