B63G 8/20
Steering equipment
Official title: Steering equipment (B63G8/16, B63G8/18 take precedence; steering of vessels in general B63H25/00)
B63G8/20 (Steering equipment) appears on 34 US grants and 38 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63G- Granted patents
- 34
- Published applications
- 38
- Assignees
- 36
- Inventors
- 98
- Latest grant
- 22 Jul 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Vector control assemblies for underwater vehicles22 Jul 2025US 12,365,432 B2Tiburon Subsea Inc.
- Underwater robotic device8 Jul 2025US 12,350,601 B2Pioneer Material Precision Tech Co., Ltd.
- Method for establishing a consolidated water current velocity profile9 Apr 2024US 11,953,321 B2Idrop , Inc.
- Autonomously deploying effects on water body bed20 Feb 2024US 11,904,992 B2The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
- Omnidirectional underwater vehicle7 Nov 2023US 11,807,348 B2Guangdong Ocean University
- Remotely operated towed vehicle for sub-seabed sonar imaging8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307769 A1Fnv IP B.V.
- Chum torpedo disbursement module22 Jan 2026US 2026/0020552 A1
- Submersible box-winged vehicle systems and methods for generating hydroelectric energy1 May 2025US 2025/0137431 A1Embraer S.A.
- Submersible glider with ring wing24 Apr 2025US 2025/0128800 A1Apeiron Labs Inc.
- Control method of underwater robot equipped with a multi-degree-of-freedom robot arm6 Feb 2025US 2025/0042520 A1Kalman Inc
Most cited
By later US patents
- Underwater unmanned vehicle recovery system and method47US 7,854,569 B1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 2010
- Adaptive compliant wing and rotor system46US 7,384,016 B2FlexSys, Inc. · 2008
- Winged autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)21US 10,654,549 B2Raytheon Company · 2020
- Apparatus and method for control of seismic survey equipment19US 9,694,885 B2Westerneco L.L.C. · 2017
- System for generating GPS position of underwater vehicle18US 6,657,585 B1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 2003