Term ends Jun 30, 2038 · Low confidence
20-year base term ends Sep 7, 2037
Held by Createai, Inc.
Filed Aug 28, 2020 as application 17/006,345 · Granted Feb 6, 2024
Base term plus 554 days of patent term adjustment (USPTO delay) · capped by a resolved terminal disclaimer
Today
2017
2038
Clock starts
Sep 7, 2017
Sep 7, 2017
Term ends
Jun 30, 2038
Jun 30, 2038
Granted
Feb 6, 2024
Feb 6, 2024
base term
patent term adjustment
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
554
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 10,782,694.
0 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 554 days past its 20-year base term on prosecution delay. A terminal disclaimer resolved from the filed document caps it earlier. 0 of 3 maintenance fees are paid so far. Confidence: Low. 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 Aug 28, 2020); 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 | +554 days, USPTO patent term adjustment record | Mar 15, 2039 | High confidence |
| Terminal disclaimer cap | Disclaimer resolved from the filed document (refs US 10,782,694) | capped to Jun 30, 2038 | High confidence |
| Patent term extension | None on file | no change | High confidence |
| Fee events | 0 of 3 maintenance fees paid | In force | High confidence |
| Further caveats on record | The record names parents not resolved: 15698607, 15698607 | Low confidence overall | Low confidence |
| Computed term end | The steps above, in order | Jun 30, 2038 | Low 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 | In force 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 | this patent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 2020 Reel 53703, frame 798 | Zhang, Xiaomin; Chen, Yilun; Li, Guangyu; Sun, Xing; Lin, Wutu; Liu, Liu; Ma, Kai-chieh; Xuan, Zijie; Zhao, Yufei | TuSimple | Assignment of Assignor's Interest |
| Sep 7, 2020 Reel 53717, frame 474 | 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
Jun 2038
Term ends Jun 30, 2038. Maintenance fees still fall due before then
Note
The 554 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 10,782,694.
Citations
2
later US patents cite this one
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