Term ends Jan 30, 2038 · High confidence
20-year base term ends Oct 7, 2036
Held by Cepton Technologies, Inc.
Filed Oct 7, 2016 as application 15/288,206 · Granted Nov 19, 2019
Base term plus 480 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay)
Today
2016
2038
Clock starts
Oct 7, 2016
Oct 7, 2016
Term ends
Jan 30, 2038
Jan 30, 2038
Granted
Nov 19, 2019
Nov 19, 2019
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
480
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.
5
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 480 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. 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 Oct 7, 2016, when this application, 15/288,206, was filed | Oct 7, 2036 | High confidence |
| Continuity chain | Every parent in the chain resolved | no change | High confidence |
| Patent term adjustment | +480 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Jan 30, 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 | Jan 30, 2038 | High confidence |
This family
| US 10,451,740 | In force Jan 2038 | Jan 2038 |
| US 10,481,266 | this patent Jan 2038 | Jan 2038 |
| US 10,754,036 | In force Dec 2037 | Dec 2037 |
| Application PCT/US2017/025785 | PCT application no patent term | no patent term |
| US 11,300,684 | In force Jan 2037 | Jan 2037 |
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, 2016 Reel 40292, frame 177 | Pei, Jun; McCord, Mark; Ye, Jun | Cepton Technologies, Inc. | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Nov 8, 2022 Reel 61690, frame 653 | Cepton Technologies, Inc. | Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | Security Interest |
| Jan 25, 2023 Reel 62485, frame 955 | Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | Cepton Technologies, Inc., a Delaware Corporation | Release of Security Interest |
Sources
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What's changing
Jan 2038
Term ends Jan 30, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 480 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) are read from the USPTO record, not recalculated by us
Citations
40
later US patents cite this one
That is top 10% of utility patents granted in 2019 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
Computed patent terms end on the dates shown. Related patents and pending applications may cover overlapping subject matter.
In force means the term is running and no lapse is on record. It is not a finding that the patent is valid.