B63B 2057/005
Tank or cargo hold cleaning specially adapted for vessels: of ballast tanks
Official title: {of ballast tanks, e.g. from deposits, biological organisms; Ship-borne installations therefor}
B63B2057/005 (Tank or cargo hold cleaning specially adapted for vessels: of ballast tanks) appears on 8 US grants and 5 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63B- Granted patents
- 8
- Published applications
- 5
- Assignees
- 6
- Inventors
- 17
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Methods of soft ballast tank decontamination and related systems and apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,752,884 B1Correct Craft IP Holdings, LLC
- Ballast tank decontamination system and method for watersports boats5 Aug 2025US 12,377,940 B1Correct Craft IP Holdings, LLC
- Submersible ultrasonic radiating elements for the prevention of biofouling4 Jul 2023US 11,691,700 B2
- Articulating arm programmable tank cleaning nozzle15 Dec 2020US 10,864,640 B1AGI Engineering, Inc.
- Systems and methods of reducing fouling in seawater systems14 Apr 2020US 10,618,603 B2Eric Christopher MILLS et al
- Submersible ultrasonic radiating elements for the prevention of biofouling19 May 2022US 2022/0153394 A1Wavearray Antifouling Systems, LLC
- Systems and methods to reduce fouling of seawater systems25 Jun 2020US 2020/0198734 A1
- Systems and methods of reducing fouling in seawater systems15 Aug 2019US 2019/0248448 A1Eric Christopher MILLS et al
- Ship buoyancy control system28 Jan 2010US 2010/0018448 A1National University Corporation Yokohama National University
- Device for interior flushing of tanks or containers2 Nov 2006US 2006/0243307 A1Scanjet Marine AB
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ballast water treatment system26US 5,816,181 A1998
- Articulating arm programmable tank cleaning nozzle9US 10,864,640 B1AGI Engineering, Inc. · 2020
- Device for interior flushing of tanks or containers9US 7,713,359 B2Scanjet Marine AB · 2010
- Ship buoyancy control system1US 7,921,790 B2National University Corporation Yokohama National University · 2011