B63B 35/04
Cable-laying vessels
B63B35/04 (Cable-laying vessels) appears on 75 US grants and 65 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63B- Granted patents
- 75
- Published applications
- 65
- Assignees
- 60
- Inventors
- 178
- Latest grant
- 24 Feb 2026
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| 2024 | 2 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Work platform for performing a cable operation on a vessel deck24 Feb 2026US 12,559,208 B2Nexans
- Cable laying vessel10 Feb 2026US 12,545,375 B2Baggermaatschappij Boskalis B.V.
- Submarine stratum space cable laying robot22 Jul 2025US 12,365,424 B2Zhejiang University
- Method and apparatus for inserting an elongate object into a trench in a sea floor27 Aug 2024US 12,074,414 B2Soil Machine Dynamics Limited
- Unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) based underwater communications network including short-range navigation device and related methods16 Apr 2024US 11,958,580 B2Eagle Technology, LLC
- Cable overboarding system3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257881 A1Nexans
- Method of Simultaneously Laying a Plurality of Elongate Flexible Members on the Seabed30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221736 A1NKT HV Cables AB
- Cable handling bow for an overboarding system of a work platform22 May 2025US 2025/0167529 A1
- Submarine Reel Drive System And Method For Reeling In And Launching Flexible Pipes And Umbilicals6 Mar 2025US 2025/0075826 A1
- Cable laying vessel20 Feb 2025US 2025/0058855 A1Baggermaatschappij Boskalis B.V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ocean bottom cable handling system and method of using same48US 5,655,753 ARegional Fabricators, Inc. · 1997
- Apparatus for marine seismic cable retrieval and deployment44US 5,284,323 A1994
- Ocean bottom cable handling system and method of using same39US 5,624,207 ARegional Fabricators, Inc. · 1997
- Modular seismic cable handling system with knockdown container38US 5,902,072 ARegional Fabricators, Inc. · 1999
- Powered sheave for node deployment and retrieval34US 8,087,848 B2Fairfield Industries Incorporated · 2012