G01V 1/186
Hydrophones
Official title: {Hydrophones}
G01V1/186 (Hydrophones) appears on 227 US grants and 221 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01V- Granted patents
- 227
- Published applications
- 221
- Assignees
- 132
- Inventors
- 524
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 7 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Automated passive acoustic monitoring with machine learning15 Sep 2026US 12,736,693 B2BLUEiQ LLC
- Acoustic system with increased sensitivity25 Aug 2026US 12,717,053 B2Raytheon Company
- Portable retractable system and method for deploying water-based and air-based sensors from a marine vessel4 Aug 2026US 12,698,065 B1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
- Autonomous underwater vehicle and corresponding guidance method4 Aug 2026US 12,698,069 B2Sercel
- Multi-component processing for seismic while drilling7 Jul 2026US 12,674,905 B2Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Remotely operated towed vehicle for sub-seabed sonar imaging8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307769 A1Fnv IP B.V.
- Acoustic telescope system and method of using same20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243567 A1Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Multi-component processing for seismic while drilling25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177720 A1Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Underwater structure survey system11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160914 A1The University of Tokyo
- Hydrophone and assembling method14 May 2026US 2026/0133330 A1Sercel
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fiber splice tray for use in optical fiber hydrophone array77US 6,870,997 B2General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc. · 2005
- Acoustic sensor for downhole measurement tool62US 7,036,363 B2PathFinder Energy Services, Inc. · 2006
- Accelerometer transducer used for seismic recording49US 6,883,638 B1Input/Output, Inc. · 2005
- Optical sensor36US 6,160,762 AGeosensor Corporation · 2000
- Acoustic sensor33US 5,361,240 AInnovative Transducers Inc. · 1994