F16L 1/165
By towing the pipe on or near the bottom
Official title: {by towing the pipe on or near the bottom}
F16L1/165 (By towing the pipe on or near the bottom) appears on 47 US grants and 25 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16L- Granted patents
- 47
- Published applications
- 25
- Assignees
- 32
- Inventors
- 85
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2022 | 0 | 3 |
| 2023 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Pulling structures into water16 Jun 2026US 12,654,810 B2Subsea 7 Limited
- Underwater laying device for offshore oil and gas pipelines and laying method thereof2 Dec 2025US 12,486,640 B2Jiangsu University of Science and Technology
- Subsea connection of pipeline sections11 Jun 2024US 12,007,044 B2Shell International Exploration and Production B.V.
- Direct tie-in of subsea conduits and structures9 Jan 2024US 11,867,322 B2Equinor Energy AS
- Installation of subsea pipelines24 Oct 2023US 11,796,086 B2Subsea 7 (US) LLC
- Underwater vehicle for laying a submarine infrastructure cable1 Jan 2026US 2026/0001636 A1City University of Hong Kong
- Initiation of subsea installation operations4 Dec 2025US 2025/0369534 A1Acergy France SAS
- Underwater laying device for offshore oil and gas pipelines and laying method thereof18 Sep 2025US 2025/0290276 A1Jiangsu University of Science and Technology
- Pulling Structures into Water15 Jun 2023US 2023/0182868 A1Subsea 7 Limited
- Direct Tie-In of Subsea Conduits and Structures14 Jul 2022US 2022/0221083 A1Equinor Energy AS
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method of connecting a flowline to a subsea station24US 4,133,182 ASociete Nationale Elf Aquitaine (Production) · 1979
- Subsea winching apparatus and method24US 4,459,065 AConoco Inc. · 1984
- Flow line bundle and method of towing same18US 4,363,566 AConoco Inc. · 1982
- Device for laying submarine pipelines17US 4,011,729 AC. G. Doris · 1977
- Method and apparatus for connecting submarine pipelines16US 4,041,719 AVetco Offshore Industries, Inc. · 1977