B60F 3/0038
Flotation, updrift or stability devices
Official title: {Flotation, updrift or stability devices}
B60F3/0038 (Flotation, updrift or stability devices) appears on 131 US grants and 155 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60F- Granted patents
- 131
- Published applications
- 155
- Assignees
- 64
- Inventors
- 249
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 3 |
| 2003 | 4 | 3 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3 |
| 2005 | 5 | 5 |
| 2006 | 3 | 5 |
| 2007 | 1 | 4 |
| 2008 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 3 | 4 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 |
| 2011 | 2 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 4 |
| 2013 | 3 | 6 |
| 2014 | 5 | 6 |
| 2015 | 3 | 5 |
| 2016 | 7 | 11 |
| 2017 | 4 | 15 |
| 2018 | 10 | 11 |
| 2019 | 12 | 11 |
| 2020 | 6 | 8 |
| 2021 | 5 | 7 |
| 2022 | 8 | 8 |
| 2023 | 8 | 12 |
| 2024 | 8 | 6 |
| 2025 | 9 | 9 |
| 2026 | 3 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Amphibious snake robot12 May 2026US 12,623,501 B2Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
- Amphibious vehicle with adjustable components for use in a liquid manure lagoon7 Apr 2026US 12,594,799 B2Nuhn Industries Ltd.
- Lightweight land and water vehicle30 Dec 2025US 12,508,858 B2FowlOut, LLC
- Amphibian16 Sep 2025US 12,415,393 B2Gibbs Technologies Limited
- Deployable Buoyancy System for a Vehicle8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307439 A1
- Automatic Vehicle Buoyancy System23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208545 A1
- Amphibious vehicle with adjustable components for use in a liquid manure lagoon16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200275 A1Nuhn Industries Ltd.
- Amphibious vehicle19 Mar 2026US 2026/0077624 A1Bazooka-Farmstar, LLC
- Autonomous maritime container system12 Mar 2026US 2026/0070382 A1Aeplog, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Spidercraft64US 5,592,894 A1997
- Assembly for armoring an amphibious vehicle against projectile penetrations50US 8,596,183 B2Leading Technology Composites, Inc. · 2013
- Amphibious vehicle41US 6,672,916 B1Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft · 2004
- Flotation device for a combat vehicle28US 5,113,779 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army · 1992
- Planing ski conversion to stand-off armor21US 3,983,832 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 1976