ARWIMS technology is protected by a growing portfolio of international patent applications.
Below are the unofficial English translation of PCT WO2025141280, and the Written Opinion of the International Search Report (in French), confirming the absence of relevant prior art.
ARWIMS is now opening its technology to a limited number of industrial partners through a structured licensing program.
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A select group of companies will receive exclusive rights covering major application domains in important groups of countries.
These exclusive domains are designed to allow their holders to take ownership of entire emerging markets, with a level of protection that is structurally out of reach for competitors.
Because ARWIMS relies on the same industrial foundations as electric cars, trucks, and off-road vehicles - battery systems, electric motors, power electronics, composite structures, embedded software - automotive groups can enter these new markets without creating new competencies.
An electric amphibious craft is, from an industrial standpoint, much closer to an electric vehicle than to a traditional boat.
For automotive manufacturers facing intense price pressure and rapid shifts in global competition, ARWIMS offers a rare opportunity: a protected, high-margin global market where they can become leaders from day one.
Exclusive licensees will be able to operate without direct technological rivals, securing long-term profitability while pioneering entirely new categories of amphibious mobility - from leisure to logistics, from autonomous river transport to resilient infrastructure.
They will also have the right to sublicense the technology, enabling them to structure their own ecosystem and extend their influence across global markets.
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Beyond the strategic advantages offered by exclusive worldwide rights, the scale of the markets concerned is itself transformative.
Even when restricted to motorboats under 20 meters, the addressable market represents an estimated € 37 to 48 billion per year, based on consolidated figures from NMMA, EBI, ICOMIA and Confindustria Nautica.
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| - | Outboard motorboats - € 20-25 billion / year |
| - | Inboard and sterndrive craft - € 8-10 billion / year |
| - | Premium RIBs (8-20 m) - € 3-5 billion / year |
| - | Compact yachting (12-20 m) - € 6-8 billion / year |
But these figures represent only the first layer. ARWIMS opens access to several emerging markets whose growth potential is far greater:
| | - | Autonomous river container transport - small 1-3 TEU vessels capable of navigating shallow rivers, bypassing locks and operating year-round. This segment is expected to reshape logistics economics in many countries. |
| - | Amphibious leisure and resilience vehicles - from recreational RV-boats to flood-resistant mobile homes, addressing the needs of the 1 in 4 humans living in flood-prone areas. |
| - | Military and dual-use amphibious platforms - where mobility across land, mud, and water is a decisive capability. |
Taken together, these markets represent one of the largest untapped mobility opportunities of the coming decades - a protected, high-margin industrial frontier where early exclusive licensees can establish global leadership before competitors even enter the field.
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Why This Patent - and Its Exclusive Licenses - Are Long-Term Strategic Assets
ARWIMS is not a fast-moving digital innovation. It is a mechanical breakthrough, based on a physical principle that could have been invented decades ago and will remain relevant for decades to come. This gives ARWIMS-based products and licenses a unique long-term stability, rarely found in modern technology.
Most technologies face rapid obsolescence. ARWIMS relies on a geometry and a kinematic architecture that remain valid as long as the physics of water, mud and soft terrain remain the same. It does not depend on rare materials, software ecosystems, or algorithmic progress. It is a fundamental mobility principle, not a temporary technical trend.
For licensees, this means that the markets opened by ARWIMS are not only large - they are durable.
A propulsion system capable of operating in mud, in water, and even on water has no obvious substitute.
There is no emerging technology capable of making this principle obsolete.
This is why ARWIMS offers long-term market protection, long-term profitability, and long-term leadership.
Exclusive licensees benefit from a patent that protects a core mechanical concept, not a narrow implementation. This makes circumvention extremely difficult and ensures that early industrial partners can build multi-decade product lines, ecosystems, and sub-licenses with confidence.
In a world where most technologies depreciate quickly, ARWIMS stands out as a rare long-term industrial asset: a protected mechanical foundation for new categories of amphibious mobility, resilient infrastructure, autonomous river logistics, and defense platforms. This innovation could also transform a large part of the immense shipbuilding and boating market in all its forms, since boats propelled by retractable paddle wheels or paddle tracks could, in a great many cases, prove more economical, faster, and more comfortable than boats driven by propellers or turbines.
For companies seeking durable competitive advantages, ARWIMS offers something exceptional: a patent built to last, enabling markets built to grow.
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