B63B 77/10
Transporting or installing offshore structures on site using buoyancy forces: specially adapted
Official title: specially adapted for electric power plants, e.g. wind turbines or tidal turbine generators
B63B77/10 (Transporting or installing offshore structures on site using buoyancy forces: specially adapted) appears on 72 US grants and 125 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63B- Granted patents
- 72
- Published applications
- 125
- Assignees
- 99
- Inventors
- 287
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2012 | 1 | 7 |
| 2013 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 | 3 |
| 2016 | 4 | 3 |
| 2017 | 4 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 4 |
| 2019 | 3 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2 | 5 |
| 2021 | 7 | 4 |
| 2022 | 3 | 13 |
| 2023 | 2 | 18 |
| 2024 | 11 | 19 |
| 2025 | 13 | 25 |
| 2026 | 11 | 7 |
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Offshore wind turbines and deployment methods therefor12US 8,740,543 B22014
- Floatable transportation and installation structure for transportation and installation of a floating wind turbine, a floating wind turbine and method for transportation and installation of the same9US 9,523,355 B2Mecal Wind Turbine Design B.V. · 2016
- Construction method and construction apparatus for offshore wind turbine generator8US 8,313,266 B2Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. · 2012
- Floating foundation for mass production8US 8,752,495 B2Jaehnig GmbH Felssicherung und Zaunbau · 2014
- Floating, yawing spar current/tidal turbine8US 9,506,451 B2Aquantis, Inc. · 2016