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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7299760 | Floating LNG import terminal and method for docking A floating terminal for offloading an LNG carrier vessel in the sea. The floating terminal of open frame construction is moored toward its front end with a rotatable mooring arrangement so that the terminal may weathervane in response to environmental forces. Marine... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7287480 | Nautical transport vehicle having enhanced stability A nautical transport vehicle includes at least one floating member, at least one longitudinal fin pivotally mounted on the floating member, and at least one corresponding plate mounted on the floating member and parallel with the longitudinal fin. Thus, the nautical... | 10/30/2007 |
| H2173 | Hydroplaning unmanned surface vehicle An unmanned hydroplaning water surface vehicle having a gondola housing with external midway lift and control foils that allow the unmanned surface vehicle to provide lift and control in water at sufficient speed. A superstructure trimaran hull serves as a stable op... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7070468 | Multi-hull watercraft with amidships-mounted propellers An efficient double-ended watercraft is disclosed that comprises four low-Froude number hulls: two forward, two aft, two on the port side, and two on the starboard. Each hull comprises an independent engine that drives a propeller shaft and propeller that is located... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7040244 | Watercraft having plural narrow hulls and having submerged passive flotation devices A watercraft has at least two narrow hulls with a shallow draft and has one or more passive flotation devices that are entirely submerged. The hulls enclose the power trains for the watercraft and are accessible from the compartments of the watercraft. The passive f... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6966271 | Waveless hull A vessel hull that does not create bow, stern, or transverse waves when moving through the water having an exterior surface that has a substantially constant cross-section along the length of the hull, and an interior surface that substantially encloses a flow chann... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6877450 | Variable-draft vessel A variable-draft vessel. The variable-draft vessel including a center hull; a first side hull coupled to a first side of the center hull; a second side hull coupled to a second side of the center hull; and at least one cross support coupling the first and second sid... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6273015 | Stabilized electric watercraft for high speed cruising, diving and sailing New electric boat designs are provided that exploit the weight of a battery to stabilize the boat and in some cases to overcome the hull speed limitation problem. The battery mass is enclosed in one or two torpedo-like structures that are mostly or comple... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6213042 | Small waterplane area multihull (SWAMH) vessel with submerged turbine drive A small waterplane area multihull (SWAMH) vessel having an upper hull platform located above the design water line of the vessel which is maintained above the surface of a body of water by at least two cylindrical submerged hulls joined thereto by support... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6073569 | Advantageous use of battery mass in electric watercraft Electric powered watercraft that lack an open-hull capsizable design utilize a low energy density heavy power supply for stabilization. The power mass is enclosed in one or two torpedo-like structures that are mostly or completely submerged. The structure... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5178085 | Wave cancellation multihull ship The invention is directed to an improved multihull vessel for enhanced seakeeping and reduced hydrodynamic fluid resistance and a method for minimizing the wavemaking resistance of multihull vessels. Lower wavemaking resistance is realized while maintaini... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5176094 | Watercraft propulsion system A propulsion system capable of more efficiently accomplishing all that the prior art propulsion systems can accomplish and additionally providing for manuevers that had hereto been unavailable with purely stern-driven craft through the use of a first and ... | 01/05/1993 |
| 4802427 | Ship hull construction A ship hull construction comprises an upper main hull having a keel and three submerged substantially cylindrical sub-hulls, one sub-hull being located directly beneath the keel of the main hull, the other two sub-hulls being located above and to opposite... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4798153 | Stabilized hull swath vehicle The present invention is directed to a vessel that is hull stabilized. The stability is achieved by the particular orientation of the lower hulls. In one embodiment the lower hulls are inclined to the calm water or design waterline.... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4781141 | Personal water craft with improved hull design Improved jet propelled aquatic vessel (1) with a hull (60) profile which increase water entrainment to the jet pump intake orifice (14) and tends to stabilize the vessel. The vessel has a hull (60) with a lowered center section (13) wherein a concave wate... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4753185 | Floating vessels A vessel includes two or more barge form hulls disposed apart vertically one above the other and multiple spaced connecting structural members rigidly inter-connecting the hulls with a gap therebetween. The upper hull provides the necessary buoyancy to su... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4557211 | Form stabilized low water plane area twin hull vessels The present invention is directed to a vessel that is form stabilized. The stability is achieved by the particular shape or orientation of the struts or both. In one embodiment the dihedral struts have a cambered cross-section area. In another embodiment ... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4552083 | High-speed semisubmerged ship maneuvering system The present invention is directed to maneuvering control systems for small waterplane-area twin hull design watercraft. The maneuvering control system of the present invention includes horizontal or dihedral foils mounted on the lower hulls of the watercr... | 11/12/1985 |
| 4345533 | Semi-submerged ship Disclosed is a semi-submerged ship comprising at least two lower hulls always located below the surface of water and arranged substantially in parallel to each other with respect to the direction of advance, struts mounted substantially vertically on the ... | 08/24/1982 |
