A61M 2205/02
General characteristics of the apparatus: characterised by a particular materials
Official title: characterised by a particular materials
A61M2205/02 (General characteristics of the apparatus: characterised by a particular materials) appears on 5,315 US grants and 8,880 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A61M 2205/0216Materials providing elastic propertiesIndexing code1,341
- A61M 2205/0266Shape memory materialsIndexing code1,096
- A61M 2205/0272Electro-active or magneto-active materialsIndexing code1,089
- A61M 2205/0238The material being a coating or protective layerIndexing code779
- A61M 2205/0205Materials having antiseptic or antimicrobial propertiesIndexing code430
- A61M 2205/0244Micromachined materialsIndexing code403
- A61M 2205/0233Conductive materialsIndexing code316
- A61M 2205/0222Materials for reducing frictionIndexing code292
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By later US patents
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