B63B 73/00
Building or assembling vessels or marine structures
Official title: Building or assembling vessels or marine structures, e.g. hulls or offshore platforms
B63B73/00 (Building or assembling vessels or marine structures) appears on 237 US grants and 255 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63B- Granted patents
- 237
- Published applications
- 255
- Assignees
- 163
- Inventors
- 564
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 3 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 4 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 2 | 1 |
| 2003 | 3 | 6 |
| 2004 | 4 | 8 |
| 2005 | 7 | 7 |
| 2006 | 3 | 3 |
| 2007 | 5 | 4 |
| 2008 | 1 | 6 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 |
| 2010 | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | 6 | 4 |
| 2012 | 1 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | 6 | 7 |
| 2015 | 4 | 11 |
| 2016 | 5 | 7 |
| 2017 | 10 | 13 |
| 2018 | 6 | 7 |
| 2019 | 11 | 14 |
| 2020 | 13 | 19 |
| 2021 | 16 | 19 |
| 2022 | 22 | 13 |
| 2023 | 20 | 27 |
| 2024 | 17 | 29 |
| 2025 | 14 | 24 |
| 2026 | 11 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B63B 73/40Building or assembling vessels or marine structures: characterised by joining methods103
- B63B 73/70Building or assembling vessels or marine structures: characterised by using moulds48
- B63B 73/20Building or assembling prefabricated vessel modules or parts other than hull blocks39
- B63B 73/10Building or assembling vessels from prefabricated hull blocks, i.e. complete hull cross-sections30
- B63B 73/60Building or assembling vessels or marine structures: characterised by the use of29
- B63B 73/30Moving or transporting modules or hull blocks to assembly sites20
- B63B 73/50Building or assembling vessels or marine structures: characterised by forming methods16
Recent patents
- Installation for the load-out into the water of a heavy load8 Sep 2026US 12,728,966 B2Soletanche Freyssinet
- Mounting assemblies for marine vessels28 Jul 2026US 12,691,988 B1Brunswick Corporation
- Watercraft assembly from repurposed aircraft16 Jun 2026US 12,654,808 B2
- Systems and methods of ship construction16 Jun 2026US 12,654,824 B2Abyss Defense Industries Inc.
- Method for fabricating a gravity-based structure (GBS) at a specialized fabrication site16 Jun 2026US 12,655,592 B2Publischnoe Aktsionernoe Obshchestvo “NOVATEK”
- Anti-slippage leveling device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307766 A1ATP S.p.A.
- Systems and methods of ship construction8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307767 A1Abyss Defense Industries Inc.
- Leveling device with load control17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276131 A1ATP S.p.A.
- Boat manufacturing arrangement, boat and method of manufacturing a boat27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249965 A1PäIjäN Boats Oy
- Portable containment structure for ship preservation6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225693 A1Vigor Industrial LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of constructing welded metal skin boat hulls and hulls made thereby24US 4,214,332 AARES, Inc. · 1980
- Method of making a structural body22US 4,673,453 AAB Hydro Betong · 1987
- System, tooling and method of construction of cryogenic tanks for LNG tankers and for LNG storage21US 4,207,827 A1980
- Modular watercraft21US 9,701,367 B2Johnson Outdoors Inc. · 2017
- Apparatus for assembling a ship hull module19US 4,476,797 A1984