Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Autonomous seabased resupply system
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Application No.: US16683521Application Date: 2019-11-14
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Publication No.: US11338892B2Publication Date: 2022-05-24
- Inventor: Jeffrey Paul Nissen , Troy Cyril Schank , Peter Charles Robichaux , Jason Paul Hurst , Todd Christopher Worden
- Applicant: Bell Textron Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Assignee: Bell Textron Inc.
- Current Assignee: Bell Textron Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Fort Worth
- Agency: Shackelford, Bowen, McKinley & Norton, LLP
- Main IPC: B63G8/00
- IPC: B63G8/00 ; B63B35/50 ; B64F1/28 ; B63B35/00 ; B64C29/00
Abstract:
An exemplary autonomous seabased resupply system includes an unmanned blob positioned in a water body, the blob containing fuel, a pump on the blob configured to pump the fuel through a conduit to a craft, and a ballast system operable to change a vertical position of the blob in the water body.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210147043A1 AUTONOMOUS SEABASED RESUPPLY SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2021-05-20
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