Inorganic chemical coatings used in the manufacture of medical stents; chemical coatings, namely, inorganic silicon carbide coatings for implantable surgical apparatus, and inorganic chemical coatings for sealing the metal surface of implantable surgical apparatus for reducing ion release and for reducing platelet aggregation while facilitating endothelialization; amorphous silicon carbide

Chemical or pharmaceutical preparations for medical purposes, namely inorganic preparations; Chemical preparations used for medical devices, in particular coatings for medical devices or chemical preparations used for stents, namely coatings for stents; namely silicon carbide coatings; amorphous hydrogen enriched intermediate silicon layer, a-SiC:H, amorphous silicium carbide

Common metals and their alloys; metals for medical applications, metals for stents, metals for markers; wires of common metal; pipes and tubes of metal; alloys of common metals, metal alloys for medical applications, metal alloys for markers; shape memory alloys; superelastic alloys; nickel titanium alloys, NiTi, nickel titanium alloys for medical applications; nickel titanium alloys for stents; nitinol

Surgical and medical apparatus and instruments, namely, vascular and cardiovascular implants and apparatus in the nature of stents, nanofiber-covered stents, mesh-covered stents, synthetic stent grafts; catheters, catheters for percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA catheters), and catheters for percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA catheters); medical apparatus and instruments, namely, balloons and stents, balloon expandable stents, self-expandable stents, flexible stents, drug eluting stents, bare metal stents; coatings sold as an integral component of medical devices, namely, stents; nickel titanium alloys for medical applications; nickel titanium alloys for stents