B63C 7/006
Emptying the contents of sunken, stranded, or disabled vessels
Official title: {Emptying the contents of sunken, stranded, or disabled vessels, e.g. by engaging the vessel; Underwater collecting of buoyant contents, such as liquid, particulate or gaseous contents, escaping from sunken vessels, e.g. using funnels, or tents for recovery of escaping hydrocarbons (Cleaning or keeping clear the surface of open water in general E02B15/00)}
B63C7/006 (Emptying the contents of sunken, stranded, or disabled vessels) appears on 39 US grants and 42 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63C- Granted patents
- 39
- Published applications
- 42
- Assignees
- 27
- Inventors
- 79
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2023 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | 3 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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