E21B 19/002
Handling rods, casings, tubes or the like outside the borehole: specially adapted
Official title: {specially adapted for underwater drilling (E21B19/09, E21B19/143 take precedence)}
E21B19/002 (Handling rods, casings, tubes or the like outside the borehole: specially adapted) appears on 1,058 US grants and 878 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E21B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 878
- Assignees
- 408
- Inventors
- 1,673
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Upper marine riser package97US 4,712,620 AVetco Gray Inc. · 1987
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