B63B 22/06
With means to cause the buoy to surface in response to a
Official title: with means to cause the buoy to surface in response to a transmitted signal {(B63B22/023 takes precedence)}
B63B22/06 (With means to cause the buoy to surface in response to a) appears on 70 US grants and 60 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63B- Granted patents
- 70
- Published applications
- 60
- Assignees
- 52
- Inventors
- 180
- Latest grant
- 30 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Automatically surfacing marker buoy for lobster or crab traps or the like50US 4,262,379 A1981
- Submersible and retrievable buoy32US 6,261,142 B1Fiomarine Investments Pty. Ltd. · 2001
- Delivery systems for pressure protecting and delivering a submerged payload and methods for using the same26US 8,166,904 B2iRobot Corporation · 2012
- Underwater release apparatus, underwater release system and method23US 5,022,013 ADatasonics Corp. · 1991
- Underwater float release system19US 7,534,152 B12009