B63B 2207/02
Variable ballast or buoyancy
B63B2207/02 (Variable ballast or buoyancy) appears on 122 US grants and 117 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63B- Granted patents
- 122
- Published applications
- 117
- Assignees
- 90
- Inventors
- 279
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 4 |
| 2014 | 2 | 3 |
| 2015 | 7 | 7 |
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| 2017 | 9 | 11 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10 |
| 2019 | 16 | 10 |
| 2020 | 9 | 11 |
| 2021 | 14 | 11 |
| 2022 | 7 | 7 |
| 2023 | 9 | 6 |
| 2024 | 4 | 9 |
| 2025 | 3 | 13 |
| 2026 | 10 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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