Term ends Mar 10, 2037 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Mar 10, 2037
Held by Createai, Inc.
Filed Oct 12, 2018 as application 16/159,060 · Granted Feb 21, 2023
Base term plus 436 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2017
2037
Clock starts
Mar 10, 2017
Mar 10, 2017
Term ends
Mar 10, 2037
Mar 10, 2037
Granted
Feb 21, 2023
Feb 21, 2023
base term
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
436
Days of term adjustment
Read from the USPTO patent term adjustment record, not recalculated here.
Capped
Terminal disclaimer
Resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,067,509.
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.
16
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 436 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 1 of 3 maintenance fees is paid so far. Confidence: High. 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 Mar 10, 2017, when applications 15/456,219 and 15/456,294, the earliest non-provisional applications in its chain, were filed (this one was filed Oct 12, 2018) | Mar 10, 2037 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +436 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | May 20, 2038 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,067,509) | capped to Mar 10, 2037 | 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 | Mar 10, 2037 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,147,193 | In force May 2037 | May 2037 |
| US 9,953,236 | In force Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| US 10,067,509 | In force Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| US 10,311,312 | In force Aug 2037 | Aug 2037 |
| US 10,671,873 | In force Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| US 11,587,304 | this patent Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| US 10,679,074 | In force Mar 2037 | Mar 2037 |
| Application PCT/US2019/021478 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
8 of 16 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 207 | Wang, Panqu; Chen, Pengfei; Huang, Zehua | 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 |
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What's changing
Mar 2037
Term ends Mar 10, 2037. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 436 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Disclaimer cap
This term is capped by a terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document, referencing US 10,067,509.
Citations
14
later US patents cite this one
That is top 5% of utility patents granted in 2023 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.