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Country	kind	publication No.	Filing Date	Type	Sub-Type
CA	A1	CA2953552	Jun 30, 2015	Patent	Application
Type : Patent Sub-Type : Application
APPLICATION LAID OPEN		METHODS FOR SCANNING AND CLEANING TANKS		Jan 07, 2016
WO	A1	WO2016004005	Jun 30, 2015	Patent	Application
Type : Patent Sub-Type : Application
INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED WITH INTERNATIONAL SEARCH REPORT		METHODS FOR SCANNING AND CLEANING TANKS		Jan 07, 2016

• 15 United States
• 10 France
• 8 Japan
• 7 China
• 5 Korea
• 2 Other

Patent Owner(s)

Patent Owner	Address
M-I DRILLING FLUIDS UK LTD	WESTHILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE WESTHILL ABERDEEN SCOTLAND AB32 6TQ

International Classification(s)

• B05B:SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
• B08B:CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENE....
• G06T:IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
• E21B:EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING

• 2015 Application Filing Year
• B05B Class
• 1312 Applications Filed
• 977 Patents Issued To-Date
• 74.47 % Issued To-Date

Inventor(s)

Inventor Name	Address	# of filed Patents	Total Citations
Hunter, Martin	Aberdeen, GB	13	394
# of filed Patents : 13 Total Citations : 394

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• 4 Citation Count
• B05B Class

• 25.49 % this patent is cited more than
• 8 Age

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Full Text

US Patent Application No: 2017/0203,342

METHODS FOR SCANNING AND CLEANING TANKS

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A method includes scanning an interior of a tank to obtain a tank rendering. Based on the tank rendering, a minimum number of tank cleaning machines and a corresponding position for each of the tank cleaning machines is determined such that substantially all of the interior of the tank is reachable by the tank cleaning machines.

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