F16L 53/00
Heating of pipes or pipe systems
Official title: Heating of pipes or pipe systems; Cooling of pipes or pipe systems
F16L53/00 (Heating of pipes or pipe systems) appears on 767 US grants and 871 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16L- Granted patents
- 767
- Published applications
- 871
- Assignees
- 471
- Inventors
- 1,770
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 12 | 0 |
| 1977 | 6 | 0 |
| 1978 | 8 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 6 | 0 |
| 1981 | 5 | 0 |
| 1982 | 7 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 4 | 0 |
| 1985 | 4 | 0 |
| 1986 | 5 | 0 |
| 1987 | 10 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 5 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 6 | 0 |
| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 6 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 10 | 0 |
| 2001 | 16 | 3 |
| 2002 | 7 | 8 |
| 2003 | 11 | 12 |
| 2004 | 13 | 7 |
| 2005 | 10 | 14 |
| 2006 | 6 | 17 |
| 2007 | 13 | 16 |
| 2008 | 5 | 20 |
| 2009 | 7 | 24 |
| 2010 | 10 | 30 |
| 2011 | 15 | 20 |
| 2012 | 12 | 38 |
| 2013 | 21 | 59 |
| 2014 | 26 | 45 |
| 2015 | 32 | 52 |
| 2016 | 33 | 53 |
| 2017 | 49 | 62 |
| 2018 | 39 | 70 |
| 2019 | 50 | 52 |
| 2020 | 55 | 56 |
| 2021 | 45 | 39 |
| 2022 | 40 | 38 |
| 2023 | 26 | 39 |
| 2024 | 43 | 41 |
| 2025 | 37 | 38 |
| 2026 | 15 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Integrated heating and insulation system6 Oct 2026US 12,753,873 B2
- Offshore renewable energy subsea heat bank29 Sep 2026US 12,747,818 B2Salamander IP Holdings LLC
- Subsea flowline blockage remediation using external heating device25 Aug 2026US 12,716,539 B2Oceaneering International, Inc.
- Heated whip hose11 Aug 2026US 12,702,991 B2Graco Minnesota Inc.
- Manufacture of pipe-in-pipe assemblies28 Jul 2026US 12,692,969 B2Acergy France SAS
- Gas supply system and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus3 Sep 2026US 2026/0258913 A1Tokyo Electron Limited
- Underwater vehicle and method for installing retaining devices on an underwater pipeline20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246247 A1
- Device for heating a feedstock6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227019 A1BASF SE
- Device and method for improving a vacuum insulated coupling6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227023 A1Mann Teknik AB
- Heat tracing monitoring system and heat tracing monitoring method30 Jul 2026US 2026/0218832 A1Innocreative System Co.,Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Composite tubing product726US 4,194,536 AEaton Corporation · 1980
- Arrangement in a pipe bundle581US 5,979,506 AAker Engineering AS · 1999
- Heater jacket for a fluid line502US 9,341,296 B2ASM America, Inc. · 2016
- Electrically heated flexible tube having temperature measuring probe379US 4,038,519 ARhone-Poulenc Inc. · 1977
- Electric heating apparatus for de-icing pipes309US 4,423,311 A1983