G21C 17/013
Inspection vehicles
G21C17/013 (Inspection vehicles) appears on 103 US grants and 99 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 103
- Published applications
- 99
- Assignees
- 64
- Inventors
- 269
- Latest grant
- 2 Jun 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2003 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2006 | 2 | 1 |
| 2007 | 2 | 3 |
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| 2012 | 0 | 10 |
| 2013 | 3 | 8 |
| 2014 | 3 | 11 |
| 2015 | 5 | 9 |
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| 2018 | 5 | 3 |
| 2019 | 11 | 12 |
| 2020 | 9 | 10 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3 |
| 2022 | 6 | 1 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 6 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Single-pass 3D reconstruction of internal surface of pipelines using depth camera array2 Jun 2026US 12,644,847 B2NUtech Ventures
- Recovery tool for recovering a solid element, in particular a radioactive material, comprising a capture head and a cup20 May 2025US 12,308,132 B2Orano Ds13 DéMantèLement Et Services
- Device and method for transformer in-situ inspection10 Dec 2024US 12,163,896 B2Hitachi Energy Ltd
- Repairing system as well as repairing method27 Aug 2024US 12,073,950 B2Framatome
- Systems, methods and apparatus for in-service tank inspections11 Jun 2024US 12,007,308 B2Square Robot, Inc.
- Inspection device, inspection system, and inspection method13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235558 A1IHI Corporation
- Reactor sampling device23 Apr 2026US 2026/0110602 A1Doosan Enerbility Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for cleaning control rod drives23 Apr 2026US 2026/0112513 A1GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC
- Single-Pass 3D Reconstruction of Internal Surface of Pipelines Using Depth Camera Array22 May 2025US 2025/0164412 A1NUtech Ventures
- Systems, methods and apparatus for in-service tank inspections3 Oct 2024US 2024/0328890 A1Square Robot, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for obstacle traversion137US 6,512,345 B2The Regents of the University of Michigan · 2003
- Laser-guided underwater wall climbing robot for reactor pressure vessel inspection104US 5,809,099 AKorea Atomic Energy Research Institute · 1998
- Portable and collapsible pipe crawler83US 4,654,702 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1987
- Vessel examination system47US 4,010,636 AGeneral Electric Company · 1977
- Self-propelled inspection vehicle45US 4,722,001 AKraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft · 1988