B66C 13/02
Devices for facilitating retrieval of floating objects
Official title: Devices for facilitating retrieval of floating objects, e.g. for recovering crafts from water (handling live-boats B63B; salvaging, or hauling-out on slipways, waterborne vessels B63C; winding mechanism controls B66D1/52)
B66C13/02 (Devices for facilitating retrieval of floating objects) appears on 214 US grants and 163 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B66C- Granted patents
- 214
- Published applications
- 163
- Assignees
- 147
- Inventors
- 367
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Heave compensator enabling active heave counteraction15 Sep 2026US 12,735,302 B2Ernst-B. Johansen AS
- Extendable davit arrangement25 Aug 2026US 12,715,549 B2Vestdavit Gruppen AS
- Marine lifting apparatus13 Jan 2026US 12,522,329 B2Gatorfur, LLC
- Device for recovering a vessel at sea6 Jan 2026US 12,515,922 B2Thales
- Apparatus, system and methods for moving a load between a floating vessel and a submerged position30 Dec 2025US 12,509,189 B2Grant Prideco, L.P.
- Method and system for compensating motion of a suspended object13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233977 A1Delta Laboratories Holding B.V.
- Launch and recovery system and method22 Jan 2026US 2026/0021871 A1
- Crane27 Nov 2025US 2025/0361122 A1Boat Lift S.R.L.
- Marine lifting apparatus3 Jul 2025US 2025/0214690 A1Versabar, Inc.
- Offshore floating intervention platform having a lifting tower with a position compensation device, related assembly and method19 Jun 2025US 2025/0196978 A1Technip Energies France
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vertical motion compensated crane apparatus60US 4,179,233 ANational Advanced Drilling Machines, Inc. · 1979
- Stabilized ship-borne access apparatus and control method for the same56US 6,659,703 B1Oceantech PLC · 2003
- Machine for gripping, securing and handling underwater vehicles and the like52US 5,253,606 ARiva Calzoni S.p.A. · 1993
- Ship transport system45US 4,666,357 AVMW Industries, Inc. · 1987
- Subsea payload installation system42US 5,069,580 AFSSL, Inc. · 1991