B63B 43/18
Preventing collision or grounding
Official title: preventing collision {or grounding}; reducing collision damage {(reducing pollution by collision B63B25/082)}
B63B43/18 (Preventing collision or grounding) appears on 164 US grants and 191 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 191
- Assignees
- 103
- Inventors
- 432
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2025 | 20 | 23 |
| 2026 | 15 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method for target assignment and route planning for multi-agent unmanned surface vehicles25 Aug 2026US 12,718,696 B2Jiangu University
- Navigation planning system and navigation planning method23 Jun 2026US 12,662,220 B2Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.
- Navigation assistance device, navigation assistance method, and program16 Jun 2026US 12,654,822 B2Japan Radio Co., Ltd.
- Assistance installation and method for assisting vessels in maneuvering at berthings16 Jun 2026US 12,656,776 B2Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V.
- Marine navigation systems, methods, and user interfaces9 Jun 2026US 12,650,308 B1Brunswick Corporation
- Detection of a risk of collision with an object in a water area1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301579 A1SEA.AI GmbH
- Compensating imprecise user input in the maneuvering of a vessel20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242048 A1ABB Schweiz AG
- Adaptive ship speed control method and device6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225696 A1Avikus Co., Ltd.
- Fuel consumption management9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192897 A1Orca Ai Ltd
- Fuel consumption optimization9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194909 A1Orca Ai Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method, apparatus, and computer program products for alerting surface vessels to hazardous conditions157US 6,469,664 B1Honeywell International Inc. · 2002
- Electronic propeller guard76US 6,676,460 B1Maruta Electric Boatworks LLC · 2004
- Method, apparatus, and computer program products for alerting surface vessels to hazardous conditions63US 6,750,815 B2Honeywell International Inc. · 2004
- Method, apparatus and computer program products for alerting submersible vessels to hazardous conditions47US 6,734,808 B1Honeywell International Inc. · 2004
- Collision avoidance systems and methods44US 10,431,099 B2FLIR Belgium BVBA · 2019