F16L 2101/10
Treating the inside of pipes
F16L2101/10 (Treating the inside of pipes) appears on 356 US grants and 406 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16L- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 406
- Assignees
- 207
- Inventors
- 754
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 36 | 20 |
| 2025 | 24 | 29 |
| 2026 | 12 | 12 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Devices for performing maintenance in a pipeline and methods for driving the devices toward a launch port1 Sep 2026US 12,723,698 B1Weldfit LLC
- Method and apparatus for cleaning and inspecting oil well drilling mud flow lines25 Aug 2026US 12,715,025 B1Tri-State Environmental, LLC
- Odometer and inspection and/or cleaning device23 Jun 2026US 12,663,292 B2Rosen IP AG
- Cleaning module for a pipeline inspection gauge16 Jun 2026US 12,655,928 B2Entegra LLP
- System and method for cleaning and/or inspecting a pipeline21 Apr 2026US 12,607,287 B2Envirobot GmbH & Co. KG
- Intelligent suction-type underground drainage pipeline sediment removal robot and sediment removal method17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273592 A1Zhengzhou University
- Robot for trenchless pipeline and manhole rehabilitation3 Sep 2026US 2026/0258897 A1
- Tool Module for Carrier Robot and Machining Method Implemented by the Tool Module16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202000 A1
- Adapted laser pig with agitation and circulation mechanism for thermal control in subsea operations2 Jul 2026US 2026/0185644 A1
- Method for operating a working apparatus in a pipeline, and working apparatus25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177184 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Controller for inspection robot traversing an obstacle87US 11,148,292 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc. · 2021
- Internal pipe inspection system81US 5,195,392 ANiagara Mohawk Power Corporation · 1993
- System, method, and apparatus to perform a surface inspection using real-time position information71US 10,481,608 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc. · 2019
- Inspection robot with couplant chamber disposed within sled for acoustic coupling71US 10,698,412 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc. · 2020
- Inspection robot having vertically distributed payloads with horizontally distributed sensor sleds68US 10,534,365 B2Gecko Robotics, Inc. · 2020