A61F 2002/30004
The prosthesis being made from materials having different values of a given
Official title: {the prosthesis being made from materials having different values of a given property at different locations within the same prosthesis}
A61F2002/30004 (The prosthesis being made from materials having different values of a given) appears on 2,614 US grants and 3,323 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 2,614
- Published applications
- 3,323
- Assignees
- 1,030
- Inventors
- 4,477
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 5 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 6 | 0 |
| 1982 | 6 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 7 | 0 |
| 1986 | 4 | 0 |
| 1987 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 8 | 0 |
| 1990 | 13 | 0 |
| 1991 | 14 | 0 |
| 1992 | 17 | 0 |
| 1993 | 16 | 0 |
| 1994 | 17 | 0 |
| 1995 | 15 | 0 |
| 1996 | 41 | 0 |
| 1997 | 29 | 0 |
| 1998 | 39 | 0 |
| 1999 | 37 | 0 |
| 2000 | 43 | 0 |
| 2001 | 49 | 22 |
| 2002 | 54 | 74 |
| 2003 | 53 | 77 |
| 2004 | 37 | 103 |
| 2005 | 36 | 129 |
| 2006 | 50 | 119 |
| 2007 | 38 | 132 |
| 2008 | 25 | 136 |
| 2009 | 56 | 136 |
| 2010 | 65 | 142 |
| 2011 | 79 | 140 |
| 2012 | 110 | 169 |
| 2013 | 116 | 127 |
| 2014 | 138 | 142 |
| 2015 | 117 | 121 |
| 2016 | 147 | 146 |
| 2017 | 109 | 127 |
| 2018 | 122 | 131 |
| 2019 | 115 | 150 |
| 2020 | 110 | 144 |
| 2021 | 122 | 144 |
| 2022 | 97 | 152 |
| 2023 | 107 | 169 |
| 2024 | 138 | 166 |
| 2025 | 112 | 121 |
| 2026 | 74 | 104 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A61F 2002/30011Differing in porosityIndexing code949
- A61F 2002/30014Differing in elasticity, stiffness or compressibilityIndexing code862
- A61F 2002/30016Differing in hardnessIndexing code235
- A61F 2002/30032Differing in absorbability or resorbability, i.e. in absorption or resorption timeIndexing code206
- A61F 2002/30028Differing in tissue ingrowth capacityIndexing code157
- A61F 2002/30006Differing in density or specific weightIndexing code129
- A61F 2002/30057Made from both cortical and cancellous adjacent partsIndexing code105
- A61F 2002/30059Differing in bone mineralizationIndexing code102
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- A61F 2002/30009Differing in fibre orientationsIndexing code100
- A61F 2002/30056Differing in radiographic densityIndexing code78
- A61F 2002/30019Differing in mechanical expandabilityIndexing code75
- A61F 2002/30024Differing in coefficient of frictionIndexing code71
- A61F 2002/30052Differing in electric or magnetic propertiesIndexing code47
- A61F 2002/30026Differing in wear resistanceIndexing code35
- A61F 2002/30036Differing in release or diffusion timeIndexing code18
- A61F 2002/30037Differing in coefficient of thermal expansion or dilationIndexing code14
- A61F 2002/30031Differing in wettabilityIndexing code11
- A61F 2002/30039Differing in shape-memory transition temperaturesIndexing code11
- A61F 2002/30046Differing in thermal conductivityIndexing code11
- A61F 2002/30023Differing in viscosityIndexing code10
- A61F 2002/30051Differing in corrosion resistanceIndexing code7
- A61F 2002/30044Differing in melting temperatureIndexing code6
- A61F 2002/30021Differing in brittlenessIndexing code5
- A61F 2002/30042Made from both cured and uncured partsIndexing code5
- A61F 2002/30041Differing in hardening timeIndexing code3
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Porous tissue scaffoldings for the repair of regeneration of tissue1,754US 6,333,029 B1Ethicon, Inc. · 2001
- Osteogenic implants derived from bone1,550US 6,863,694 B1Osteotech, Inc. · 2005
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