B63G 8/001
Underwater vessels adapted for special purposes
Official title: {Underwater vessels adapted for special purposes, e.g. unmanned underwater vessels; Equipment specially adapted therefor, e.g. docking stations (self-propelled or direction controlled diving chambers with mechanical link to a base B63C11/42)}
B63G8/001 (Underwater vessels adapted for special purposes) appears on 1,220 US grants and 1,401 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63G- Granted patents
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Underwater rescue device29 Sep 2026US 12,747,009 B2
- Modular subsea vehicle29 Sep 2026US 12,747,012 B2Oceaneering International, Inc.
- Splash zone inspection robot15 Sep 2026US 12,735,156 B2Oceaneering International, Inc.
- Submersible robot system and methods of employing same15 Sep 2026US 12,735,157 B2Fleet Robotics, Inc.
- Submersible device for underwater sonar imagery15 Sep 2026US 12,736,669 B2Navico Group Americas, LLC
- Remotely operated towed vehicle for sub-seabed sonar imaging8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307769 A1Fnv IP B.V.
- Field configurable autonomous land surface craft1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296612 A1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
- Robot1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299618 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Underwater ROV-Guided Chemical Injector for Precision Treatment of Aquatic Invasive/Nuisance Species24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285455 A1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
- Cloud assisted underwater vehicle control24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285456 A1Apeiron Labs Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Submersible contactless power delivery system253US 5,301,096 AElectric Power Research Institute, Inc. · 1994
- Self propelled device having a magnetohydrodynamic propulsion system141US 6,939,290 B2Given Imaging Ltd. · 2005
- Machine vision system and method for inspection, homing, guidance and docking with respect to remote objects130US 6,362,875 B1Cognax Technology and Investment Corp. · 2002
- Remote unmanned work system (RUWS) electromechanical cable system120US 4,010,619 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 1977
- Method and device for the monitoring and remote control of unmanned, mobile underwater vehicles120US 5,579,285 A1996