B63B 83/20
Rebuilding or retrofitting vessels: for conversion to a different use
Official title: for conversion to a different use, e.g. for converting tankers into a FPSO-FLNG units
B63B83/20 (Rebuilding or retrofitting vessels: for conversion to a different use) appears on 16 US grants and 20 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63B- Granted patents
- 16
- Published applications
- 20
- Assignees
- 15
- Inventors
- 37
- Latest grant
- 30 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Offshore electrical power plant14 Jun 2022US 11,359,519 B2Single Buoy Moorings Inc.
- Power generation apparatus13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235099 A14Rivers Power Engineering PTY Ltd
- Factory for Producing an Elongated Tension Member, and Method for Constructing Such a Factory6 Nov 2025US 2025/0340273 A1Cabin Air Group B.V.
- Factory for Producing an Elongated Tension Member, and Method for Constructing Such a Factory15 May 2025US 2025/0153816 A1Cabin Air Group B.V.
- Floating offshore wind turbine assembly unit3 Apr 2025US 2025/0109734 A1Exmar Offshore Company
- Hull-mounted installation conversion method18 May 2023US 2023/0150624 A1Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- LNG floating production, storage, and offloading scheme46US 6,889,522 B2ABB Lummus Global, Randall Gas Technologies · 2005
- Method of converting an ocean cargo barge into an offshore manned service barge13US 4,732,103 AMartech International, Inc. · 1988
- Bilge keel and method for FPSO petroleum production systems4US 6,176,191 B1Petroleo Brasileiro S. A. · 2001
- Shipping methanol for a methanol to olefin unit in non-methanol carriers4US 6,899,046 B2ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc. · 2005
- Hull conversion of existing vessels for tank integration3US 8,671,863 B2Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre Pte Ltd · 2014