Building or assembling floating offshore structures, e.g. semi-submersible platforms, SPAR platforms or wind turbine platforms

Introduced: January 2020

Classification Context

Section:: PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Class:: SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
Subclass:: SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING

Additional Content

SPAR Single Point Anchor Reservoir: a SPAR is a cylindrical, partially submerged offshore drilling and production platform that is particularly well-adapted to deep water.

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B63, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

SAMSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES KR 5,719
DAEWOO SHIPBUILDING & MARINE ENGINEERING COMPANY KR 4,684
HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES COMPANY KR 3,015
ZHEJIANG OCEAN UNIVERSITY 1,359
HUDONG-ZHONGHUA SHIPBUILDING (GROUP) COMPANY 1,221
HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY 1,175
SHANGHAI WAIGAOQIAO SHIPBUILDING COMPANY 1,129
CSSC HUANGPU WENCHONG SHIPBUILDING COMPANY 1,113
GUANGZHOU SHIPYARD INTERNATIONAL COMPANY 1,073
JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 963