B81C 2201/112
Depositing an anti-stiction or passivation coating
Official title: Depositing an anti-stiction or passivation coating, e.g. on the elastic or moving parts
B81C2201/112 (Depositing an anti-stiction or passivation coating) appears on 148 US grants and 166 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B81C- Granted patents
- 148
- Published applications
- 166
- Assignees
- 69
- Inventors
- 342
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Anti-stiction ionic lubricants in MEMS devices11 Aug 2026US 12,703,834 B1Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Method and device for locally removing and/or modifying a polymer material on a surface28 Apr 2026US 12,612,305 B2Robert Bosch GmbH
- Method and system for fabricating a MEMS device cap11 Nov 2025US 12,466,726 B2InvenSense, Inc.
- Method and system for fabricating a MEMS device25 Mar 2025US 12,258,266 B2InvenSense, Inc.
- Method and system for fabricating a MEMS device31 Dec 2024US 12,180,069 B2InvenSense, Inc.
- Anti-Stiction Process for Mems Device14 May 2026US 2026/0132019 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Mems electrostatic actuator blade configurations and methods of manufacture7 May 2026US 2026/0125261 A1Calient.Ai Inc.
- Roughness selectivity for mems movement stiction reduction19 Feb 2026US 2026/0048979 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Semiconductor mems structure and method of forming the same8 Jan 2026US 2026/0008667 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Method and system for fabricating a mems device cap11 Dec 2025US 2025/0376371 A1InvenSense, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Low reset voltage process for DMD363US 5,331,454 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1994
- Low surface energy passivation layer for micromechanical devices293US 5,602,671 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1997
- Method of producing micromechanical devices273US 5,411,769 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1995
- Method of fabricating a membrane having a tapered pore148US 8,137,569 B2Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC · 2012
- Micromechanical device including time-release passivant125US 5,939,785 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1999