Patents by Inventor Albert Long Trinh
Albert Long Trinh 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).
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Publication number: 20220205282Abstract: A tamper-evident securement device for use in securing closed a drawer of a furniture, comprising: a flexible extending closure member comprising an at least partially flexible attaching portion disposed within the furniture, and a flexible locking portion comprising a distal end section that traverses a gap between the drawer and a drawer opening when the drawer is closed, and provides an aperture that is disposed outside the furniture; and a securement member disposed within the furniture that attaches the extending closure member to an inner surface of a top side of the furniture; wherein a lock device can be inserted through the aperture of the flexible locking portion. The tamper-evident securement device may employ a shield plate. For installation of the tamper-evident securement device, an implement may be utilized.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2022Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Albert Long Trinh, David Lam Trinh, Dennis Sam Trinh, Toan Trinh
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Patent number: 11274471Abstract: A tamper-evident securement device for use in securing closed a drawer of a furniture, comprising: a flexible extending closure member comprising an at least partially flexible attaching portion disposed within the furniture, and a flexible locking portion comprising a distal end section that traverses a gap between the drawer and a drawer opening when the drawer is closed, and provides an aperture that is disposed outside the furniture; and a securement member disposed within the furniture that attaches the extending closure member to an inner surface of a top side of the furniture; wherein a lock device can be inserted through the aperture of the flexible locking portion. The tamper-evident securement device may employ a shield plate. For installation of the tamper-evident securement device, an implement may be utilized.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Inventors: Albert Long Trinh, David Lam Trinh, Dennis Sam Trinh, Toan Trinh
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Publication number: 20210293055Abstract: A tamper-evident securement device for use in securing closed a drawer of a furniture, comprising: a flexible extending closure member comprising an at least partially flexible attaching portion disposed within the furniture, and a flexible locking portion comprising a distal end section that traverses a gap between the drawer and a drawer opening when the drawer is closed, and provides an aperture that is disposed outside the furniture; and a securement member disposed within the furniture that attaches the extending closure member to an inner surface of a top side of the furniture; wherein a lock device can be inserted through the aperture of the flexible locking portion. The tamper-evident securement device may employ a shield plate. For installation of the tamper-evident securement device, an implement may be utilized.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Albert Long Trinh, David Lam Trinh, Dennis Sam Trinh, Toan Trinh
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Publication number: 20190029275Abstract: New sandwich product, particularly a fast food sandwich product that contains appreciable amounts of salad ingredients, and to a salad insert suitable for use in such sandwich product to improve the diet of the consumer. The sandwich product can include a layer of a meat or protein portion with the layer of a wrapped salad portion that are placed on or enclosed between a bread portion. The wrapped salad portion uses an edible wrapper to enclose the salad ingredients. The edible wrapper can be an edible processed wrapper such as rice paper or soy paper, or an edible natural wrapper such as a lettuce leaf or cabbage leaf, or a combination thereof. An edible humectant can be used in the source of water used for moistening a dried sheet of a rice paper for improving the resistance to drying of a moistened rice paper. Salad dressing can be injected through the outer layer of the wrapped salad portion using a needle.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Albert Long Trinh, Dennis Sam Trinh, Toan Trinh
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Patent number: 10094146Abstract: A device for securing closed a drawer of a dresser, cabinet or desk. The device includes a base that is secured to an interior surface of the frame, which cannot be accessed when the drawer is closed within the drawer opening of the frame, and an extending member. The extending member has a first end portion that attaches releasably to the base, and a second end that extends exteriorly through the drawer opening and between the drawer and the frame. The device is not built into or integral with the drawer or the frame of the dresser, cabinet or desk.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Inventors: Albert Long Trinh, Dennis Sam Trinh, Toan Trinh
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Publication number: 20160066587Abstract: New sandwich product, particularly a fast food sandwich product that contains appreciable amounts of salad ingredients, and to a salad insert suitable for use in such sandwich product to improve the diet of the consumer. The sandwich product can include a layer of a meat or protein portion with the layer of a wrapped salad portion that are placed on or enclosed between a bread portion. The wrapped salad portion uses an edible wrapper to enclose the salad ingredients. The edible wrapper can be an edible processed wrapper such as rice paper or soy paper, or an edible natural wrapper such as a lettuce leaf or cabbage leaf, or a combination thereof. An edible humectant can be used in the source of water used for moistening a dried sheet of a rice paper for improving the resistance to drying of a moistened rice paper. Salad dressing can be injected through the outer layer of the wrapped salad portion using a needle.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventors: Albert Long Trinh, Dennis Sam Trinh, Toan Trinh
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Publication number: 20160002957Abstract: A locking system for the file drawers of a standard file cabinet, and in particular a steel-constructed file cabinet. The system includes a locking device and a locking means, the locking device having an elongated bar that includes a locking end and an opposing attaching end. The attaching end can include a laterally-extending upturned wall at its forward end that hooks or clasps to an interior wall along the upper edge of the file drawer frame. The locking means is a ratcheting lock that releasably and ratchetingly engage teeth along an edge of the elongated bar. The attaching end can be adhesively or magnetically held in place as the locking end is extended through a slot opening between the file drawer and the drawer opening frame as the file drawer is closed, and the ratcheting lock secures the locking device and the closed drawer from opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Albert Long Trinh, Dennis Sam TRINH, Toan TRINH
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Publication number: 20160002956Abstract: A device for securing closed a drawer of a dresser, cabinet or desk. The device includes a base that is secured to an interior surface of the frame, which cannot be accessed when the drawer is closed within the drawer opening of the frame, and an extending member. The extending member has a first end portion that attaches releasably to the base, and a second end that extends exteriorly through the drawer opening and between the drawer and the frame. The device is not built into or integral with the drawer or the frame of the dresser, cabinet or desk.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Albert Long TRINH, Dennis Sam TRINH, Toan TRINH
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Patent number: 9133651Abstract: A device for securing closed a drawer of a dresser, cabinet or desk. The device includes a base that is secured to an interior surface of the frame, which cannot be accessed when the drawer is closed within the drawer opening of the frame, and an extending member. The extending member has a first end portion that attaches releasably to the base, and a second end that extends exteriorly through the drawer opening and between the drawer and the frame. The device is not built into or integral with the drawer or the frame of the dresser, cabinet or desk.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Inventors: Albert Long Trinh, Dennis Sam Trinh, Toan Trinh
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Publication number: 20150082840Abstract: A locking system for the file drawers of a standard file cabinet, and in particular a steel-constructed file cabinet. The system includes a locking device and a locking means, the locking device having an elongated bar that includes a locking end and an opposing attaching end. The attaching end has an upturned wall at its distal end that adhesively or magnetically attaches to an interior vertical wall along the upper edge of the file drawer frame. The locking means is a ratcheting lock that releasably and ratchetingly engage teeth along an edge of the elongated bar. The locking end of the attached locking device extends through an upper slot when the file drawer is closed, and the ratcheting lock secures the locking device and the closed drawer from opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Dennis Sam TRINH, Albert Long TRINH, Toan TRINH
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Publication number: 20140260444Abstract: A locking system for standard file drawer cabinets, and in particular steel-constructed filing cabinets. The system includes a first locking device including a main elongated member that includes a locking end portion and an opposing attaching end portion, the attaching end portion including an upturned wall at the distal end of the attaching end, and a laterally-extending hooking member extending from an upper end of the upturned wall toward the locking end portion, substantially parallel to the main elongated member, the hooking member spaced apart from the main elongated member at the attaching end by a gap having a dimension, wherein the gap accommodates insertion of the thickness of an inwardly extending wall of a filing cabinet that defines the upper edge of the file drawer opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Albert Long TRINH, Dennis Sam Trinh, Toan Trinh
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Patent number: 8727546Abstract: A GPS device comprises a GPS unit, a visor, and an optional attachment means to attach the visor to the GPS unit to improve the viewing of the visual display screen under bright light and/or to eliminate the reflection of the lighted display screen of the GPS unit from a vehicle's windshield during nighttime driving; a visor set comprising said visor and said attachment means; said visor or visor set optionally comprising a GPS antenna for stronger reception and/or a faster acquisition of satellite GPS signals; a method for improving the viewing of the display screen under bright light, for eliminating reflection of the display screen from the vehicle's windshield, and for providing improved satellite GPS signals by using the GPS device or the visor set hereinabove; and an article of manufacture comprising the GPS device or the visor set hereinabove, in association with instructions for use.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2011Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Inventors: Dennis Sam Trinh, Albert Long Trinh, Toan Trinh
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Publication number: 20140091694Abstract: A device for securing closed a drawer of a dresser, cabinet or desk. The device includes a base that is secured to an interior surface of the frame, which cannot be accessed when the drawer is closed within the drawer opening of the frame, and an extending member. The extending member has a first end portion that attaches releasably to the base, and a second end that extends exteriorly through the drawer opening and between the drawer and the frame. The device is not built into or integral with the drawer or the frame of the dresser, cabinet or desk.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Inventors: Albert Long TRINH, Dennis Sam Trinh, Toan Trinh
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Patent number: 8511626Abstract: A GPS device comprises a GPS unit, a visor, and an optional attachment means to attach the visor to the GPS unit to improve the viewing of the visual display screen under bright light and/or to eliminate the reflection of the lighted display screen of the GPS unit from a vehicle's windshield during nighttime driving; a visor set comprising said visor and said attachment means; said visor or visor set optionally comprising a GPS antenna for stronger reception and/or a faster acquisition of satellite GPS signals; a method for improving the viewing of the display screen under bright light, for eliminating reflection of the display screen from the vehicle's windshield, and for providing improved satellite GPS signals by using the GPS device or the visor set hereinabove; and an article of manufacture comprising the GPS device or the visor set hereinabove, in association with instructions for use.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Inventors: Albert Long Trinh, Dennis Sam Trinh, Toan Trinh
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Publication number: 20130201064Abstract: A GPS device comprises a GPS unit, a visor, and an optional attachment means to attach the visor to the GPS unit to improve the viewing of the visual display screen under bright light and/or to eliminate the reflection of the lighted display screen of the GPS unit from a vehicle's windshield during nighttime driving; a visor set comprising said visor and said attachment means; said visor or visor set optionally comprising a GPS antenna for stronger reception and/or a faster acquisition of satellite GPS signals; a method for improving the viewing of the display screen under bright light, for eliminating reflection of the display screen from the vehicle's windshield, and for providing improved satellite GPS signals by using the GPS device or the visor set hereinabove; and an article of manufacture comprising the GPS device or the visor set hereinabove, in association with instructions for use.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: August 8, 2013Inventors: Albert Long TRINH, Dennis Sam Trinh, Toan Trinh
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Publication number: 20120113521Abstract: A GPS device comprises a GPS unit, a visor, and an optional attachment means to attach the visor to the GPS unit to improve the viewing of the visual display screen under bright light and/or to eliminate the reflection of the lighted display screen of the GPS unit from a vehicle's windshield during nighttime driving; a visor set comprising said visor and said attachment means; said visor or visor set optionally comprising a GPS antenna for stronger reception and/or a faster acquisition of satellite GPS signals; a method for improving the viewing of the display screen under bright light, for eliminating reflection of the display screen from the vehicle's windshield, and for providing improved satellite GPS signals by using the GPS device or the visor set hereinabove; and an article of manufacture comprising the GPS device or the visor set hereinabove, in association with instructions for use.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2011Publication date: May 10, 2012Inventors: Dennis Sam TRINH, Albert Long Trinh, Toan Trinh
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Publication number: 20100254014Abstract: A GPS device comprises a GPS unit, a visor, and an optional attachment means to attach the visor to the GPS unit to improve the viewing of the visual display screen under bright light and/or to eliminate the reflection of the lighted display screen of the GPS unit from a vehicle's windshield during nighttime driving; a visor set comprising said visor and said attachment means; said visor or visor set optionally comprising a GPS antenna for stronger reception and/or a faster acquisition of satellite GPS signals; a method for improving the viewing of the display screen under bright light, for eliminating reflection of the display screen from the vehicle's windshield, and for providing improved satellite GPS signals by using the GPS device or the visor set hereinabove; and an article of manufacture comprising the GPS device or the visor set hereinabove, in association with instructions for use.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2009Publication date: October 7, 2010Inventors: Dennis Sam Trinh, Albert Long Trinh, Toan Trinh
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Patent number: 7784304Abstract: Non-slip, non-constrictive, self-adhesive ice bag device for use with confined patients that comprises a flexible, preferably water-impermeable outer cover with an open end that is sealable with a leak-proof closure means, said cover having a layer of adhesive to temporarily attach said cover, when it is filled with the cooling medium, or one or more cooling packs containing the cooling medium, to the inside or the outside of a patient-care fabric that is arranged to be in close contact with an injured area of the patient, such that said cooling medium is then in close contact with said injured area, without slippage, and without the need for a potentially constrictive strapping and/or wrapping means.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2005Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Inventors: Dennis Sam Trinh, David Lam Trinh, Albert Long Trinh
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Patent number: 7243509Abstract: This invention relates primarily to a therapeutic method comprising the use of a flexible outer cover that allows quick and easy alternating insertions of separate heat and cold packs, and is attached using an adhesive layer or safety pins to a garment at a location on the garment that is in close contact with an injured area of the body when the garment is worm, to provide alternating cold and hot or hot and cold therapeutic treatments and to a contrasting thermal device comprising a flexible outer cover for use in this method, and an article of manufacture comprising said flexible outer cover and other optional elements to form said contrasting thermal device.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2005Date of Patent: July 17, 2007Inventors: David Lam Trinh, Dennis Sam Trinh, Albert Long Trinh
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Patent number: 7197893Abstract: Covers, articles of manufacture, and methods useful in the creation of an ice bag device that is compact, not bulky, preferably washable, optionally disposable, and which can be attached to a body part, said ice bag device comprising (a) a flexible cover open on at least one side, wherein the two edges of at least one open side and the side opposite said open side each has a row of small apertures; (b) optionally, a reclosable inner plastic container to contain cooling media such as ice, that can fit inside the outer cover, said inner container is preferably sealed on three sides and has the fourth side which is open and has a rib and groove sealing closure; (c) optionally, string like members (preferably a pair of shoelaces which are readily available in most situations) for use to attach the ice bag device to a body part and to close the open side(s) of the outer cover; and (d) optionally, a sealed plastic wrapper to keep the outer cover, the optional inner container and the optional shoelaces in a hygienicType: GrantFiled: June 6, 2003Date of Patent: April 3, 2007Inventors: Albert Long Trinh, David Lam Trinh