A61F 2310/00856
Coating or prosthesis-covering structure made of compounds based on metal nitrides
A61F2310/00856 (Coating or prosthesis-covering structure made of compounds based on metal nitrides) appears on 212 US grants and 213 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 212
- Published applications
- 213
- Assignees
- 101
- Inventors
- 291
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 4 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 6 | 0 |
| 1995 | 7 | 0 |
| 1996 | 7 | 0 |
| 1997 | 13 | 0 |
| 1998 | 5 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 2 |
| 2002 | 2 | 4 |
| 2003 | 1 | 4 |
| 2004 | 1 | 10 |
| 2005 | 0 | 13 |
| 2006 | 2 | 7 |
| 2007 | 2 | 12 |
| 2008 | 3 | 16 |
| 2009 | 7 | 23 |
| 2010 | 9 | 15 |
| 2011 | 9 | 6 |
| 2012 | 11 | 12 |
| 2013 | 8 | 9 |
| 2014 | 13 | 10 |
| 2015 | 12 | 1 |
| 2016 | 8 | 10 |
| 2017 | 6 | 8 |
| 2018 | 4 | 7 |
| 2019 | 10 | 6 |
| 2020 | 7 | 10 |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 10 | 11 |
| 2023 | 4 | 2 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4 |
| 2025 | 5 | 5 |
| 2026 | 3 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A61F 2310/0088Coating made of titanium nitrideIndexing code143
- A61F 2310/00892Coating made of zirconium nitrideIndexing code39
- A61F 2310/00886Coating made of chromium nitrideIndexing code20
- A61F 2310/00874Coating made of silicon nitrideIndexing code18
- A61F 2310/00898Coating made of niobium nitrideIndexing code18
- A61F 2310/00868Coating made of aluminium nitrideIndexing code8
- A61F 2310/0091Coating made of tantalum nitrideIndexing code5
- A61F 2310/00904Coating made of hafnium nitrideIndexing code4
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Vascular and endoluminal stents with improved coatings379US 6,099,561 AInflow Dynamics Inc. · 2000
- Intervertebral disc376US 6,770,095 B2Depuy Acroned, Inc. · 2004
- Vascular and endoluminal stents with improved coatings286US 6,387,121 B1Inflow Dynamics Inc. · 2002
- Posterior stabilized prosthetic knee replacement with bearing translation and dislocation prevention features237US 6,491,726 B2Biomedical Engineering Trust I · 2002
- Surface hardened biocompatible metallic medical implants217US 5,415,704 ASmith & Nephew Richards Inc. · 1995