Patents by Inventor Timothy J. Band

Timothy J. Band 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: 9775713
    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 CoCr, 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: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy J. Band, Hamish Forster, Vivek D. Pawar, Abraham B. Salehi, Jeffrey J. Shea, Gordon B. Hunter, Shilesh C. Jani, Mark L. Morrison