F16L 1/265
Underwater vehicles moving on the bottom
Official title: {Underwater vehicles moving on the bottom}
F16L1/265 (Underwater vehicles moving on the bottom) appears on 35 US grants and 33 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16L- Granted patents
- 35
- Published applications
- 33
- Assignees
- 20
- Inventors
- 57
- Latest grant
- 6 Jan 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Submersible vessel6 Jan 2026US 12,515,772 B2Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Pumping operations using underwater vehicles25 Nov 2025US 12,479,548 B2DeepOcean AS
- Underwater vehicle system and working method28 Jan 2025US 12,208,870 B2Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Submersible habitat for the repair of subsea cable31 Jan 2023US 11,565,780 B2Irish Sea Contractors Limited
- Tool-less joiner clamp20 Dec 2022US 11,530,767 B2L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
- Sealing ring positioning device11 Jul 2024US 2024/0229989 A9Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras
- Sealing ring positioning device25 Apr 2024US 2024/0133496 A1Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras
- Improvements in pumping operations using underwater vehicles13 Apr 2023US 2023/0115886 A1DeepOcean AS
- Submersible vessel12 Jan 2023US 2023/0009872 A1Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Underwater vehicle system and working method10 Mar 2022US 2022/0073175 A1Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for connecting underwater conduits51US 6,234,717 B1Sonsub International Ltd. · 2001
- Coordinated, complementary water environment mobile robots31US 10,456,924 B2Saudi Arabian Oil Company · 2019
- Underwater pipeline inspection crawler22US 10,589,433 B2Saudi Arabian Oil Company · 2020
- Concrete removal apparatus22US 4,229,121 AThe Sea Horse Corporation · 1980
- Subsea pipeline service skid19US 8,381,578 B2Valkyrie Commissioning Services, Inc. · 2013