Patents by Inventor Mark Lee Morrison

Mark Lee Morrison has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Applications of diffusion hardening techniques
    Patent number: 11351031
    Abstract: A device, for example a medical implant, and a method of making the same, the device having a metal or metal alloy substrate, for example cobalt chrome, and a diffusion hardened metallic surface, for example a plasma carburized surface, contacting a non-diffusion hardened surface or a diffusion hardened surface having a diffusion hardening species different from that of the opposing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy John Band, Hamish Forster, Gordon Bruce Hunter, Shilesh C. Jani, Mark Lee Morrison, Vivek Devidas Pawar, Abraham Biglari Salehi, Jeffrey Joel Shea
  • APPLICATIONS OF DIFFUSION HARDENING TECHNIQUES
    Publication number: 20200078179
    Abstract: A device, for example a medical implant, and a method of making the same, the device having a metal or metal alloy substrate, for example cobalt chrome, and a diffusion hardened metallic surface, for example a plasma carburized surface, contacting a non-diffusion hardened surface or a diffusion hardened surface having a diffusion hardening species different from that of the opposing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Timothy John Band, Hamish Forster, Gordon Bruce Hunter, Shilesh C. Jani, Mark Lee Morrison, Vivek Devidas Pawar, Abraham Biglari Salehi, Jeffrey Joel Shea
  • Applications of diffusion hardening techniques
    Patent number: 10512544
    Abstract: A device, for example a medical implant, and a method of making the same, the device having a metal or metal alloy substrate, for example cobalt chrome, and a diffusion hardened metallic surface, for example a plasma carburized surface, contacting a non-diffusion hardened surface or a diffusion hardened surface having a diffusion hardening species different from that of the opposing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy John Band, Hamish Forster, Gordon Bruce Hunter, Shilesh C. Jani, Mark Lee Morrison, Vivek Devidas Pawar, Abraham Biglari Salehi, Jeffrey Joel Shea
  • APPLICATIONS OF DIFFUSION HARDENING TECHNIQUES
    Publication number: 20180042727
    Abstract: A device, for example a medical implant, and a method of making the same, the device having a metal or metal alloy substrate, for example cobalt chrome, and a diffusion hardened metallic surface, for example a plasma carburized surface, contacting a non-diffusion hardened surface or a diffusion hardened surface having a diffusion hardening species different from that of the opposing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Timothy John Band, Hamish Forster, Gordon Bruce Hunter, Shilesh C. Jani, Mark Lee Morrison, Vivek Devidas Pawar, Abraham Biglari Salehi, Jeffrey Joel Shea