Term ends Jun 5, 2038 · Medium confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 7, 2037
Why Medium: A parent in the chain could not be resolved.
Held by Createai, Inc.
Filed Apr 5, 2018 as application 15/946,195 · Granted Mar 23, 2021
Base term plus 271 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2017
2038
Clock starts
Sep 7, 2017
Sep 7, 2017
Term ends
Jun 5, 2038
Jun 5, 2038
Granted
Mar 23, 2021
Mar 23, 2021
base term
patent term adjustment
fee events
Updated Nov 14, 2026 · includes USPTO assignment & status data published Nov 14, 2026 and grant & fee data published Nov 10, 2026 (weekly) · how we know
271
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
None
Terminal disclaimer
No disclaimer on this record.
1 of 3
Maintenance fees paid
Three maintenance fees fall due, at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years from grant. This counts the ones the record shows paid.
10
Family applications on record here
Applications sharing this one's continuity chain whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
This patent's term runs 271 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: Medium. from the record
How we calculated this date
One row per rule, each showing its own input and what it did to the date. A step we could not verify says so instead of resolving itself.
| Step | Input | Date after this step | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base term, 20 years from filing | Clock starts Sep 7, 2017, when application 15/698,607, the earliest non-provisional in its chain, was filed (this one was filed Apr 5, 2018); a parent in its chain could not be resolved (the next row) | Sep 7, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | A parent in the chain could not be resolved | dated from this application's own claim | Medium confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +271 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jun 5, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | None on record | no cap applied | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 1 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 5, 2038 | Medium confidence |
This family
| US 10,649,458 | In force Sep 2037 | Sep 2037 |
| US 10,782,693 | In force Mar 2038 | Mar 2038 |
| US 10,782,694 | In force Jun 2038 | Jun 2038 |
| US 10,953,880 | In force Jun 2038 | Jun 2038 |
| US 10,953,881 | this patent Jun 2038 | Jun 2038 |
| Application PCT/US2019/025995 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,853,071 | In force Sep 2037 | Sep 2037 |
| US 11,892,846 | In force Jun 2038 | Jun 2038 |
8 of 10 applications in this family shown, earliest filings first. The applications whose file history this site holds. The family may have others.
Assignments
Assignment documents as recorded at the USPTO, oldest first, with the reel and frame each was recorded at. A recorded assignment is a filed document, not a statement of current ownership, and the absence of a later one is not evidence that the last one still stands.
| Recorded | Assignor | Assignee | Conveyance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2018 Reel 47468, frame 165 | Sun, Xing; Ma, Kai-chieh | TuSimple | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Jan 30, 2020 Reel 51757, frame 470 | TuSimple | TuSimple, Inc. | Change of Name |
| Dec 3, 2025 Reel 73832, frame 485 | TuSimple, Inc. | Createai, Inc. | Change of Name |
Sources
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What's changing
Jun 2038
Term ends Jun 5, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 271 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
42
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2021 in our data, the only group it is compared against.
How we rank
Every date shows its work: the base term, any term adjustment or extension, any disclaimer cap, and the maintenance fee record, each with a confidence tier. How this record was built
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In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.