B63G 8/14
Control of attitude or depth
Official title: Control of attitude or depth (of torpedoes F42B19/00)
B63G8/14 (Control of attitude or depth) appears on 573 US grants and 541 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63G- Granted patents
- 573
- Published applications
- 541
- Assignees
- 327
- Inventors
- 1,318
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 7 | 0 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 8 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 9 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 2 |
| 2002 | 4 | 3 |
| 2003 | 6 | 2 |
| 2004 | 4 | 2 |
| 2005 | 7 | 7 |
| 2006 | 7 | 4 |
| 2007 | 7 | 5 |
| 2008 | 3 | 10 |
| 2009 | 5 | 12 |
| 2010 | 6 | 5 |
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| 2012 | 12 | 19 |
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| 2015 | 16 | 28 |
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| 2017 | 27 | 37 |
| 2018 | 42 | 48 |
| 2019 | 42 | 29 |
| 2020 | 31 | 32 |
| 2021 | 34 | 33 |
| 2022 | 31 | 27 |
| 2023 | 33 | 34 |
| 2024 | 32 | 47 |
| 2025 | 37 | 49 |
| 2026 | 29 | 30 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of controlling operating depth of an electricity-generating device having a tethered water current-driven turbine111US 6,091,161 ADehlsen Associates, LLC · 2000
- Adaptive control surface using antagonistic shape memory alloy tendons103US 5,662,294 ALockheed Martin Corporation · 1997
- Amphibious vertical takeoff and landing unmanned device59US 9,493,235 B22016
- Control tab assisted lift reducing system for underwater hydrofoil surface58US 6,227,139 B1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 2001
- Autonomous unmanned underwater vehicle with buoyancy engine51US 8,205,570 B1Vehicle Control Technologies, Inc. · 2012