Patents by Inventor Fredrick Muya Makau
Fredrick Muya Makau 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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Patent number: 11396198Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to embossed print media including a media substrate having a front side and a back side, an embossed image-receiving layer formed on the front side of the media substrate at a coating weight of 3 gsm to 50 gsm, and a fabric liner coupled to the back side of media substrate via an adhesive layer. The embossed image-receiving layer can include a first pigment filler and a first polymeric binder. The adhesive layer can be applied at a coating weight from 20 gsm to 40 gsm and can include a second polymeric binder and a flame-retarding filler.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Xiaoqi Zhou, Xulong Fu, Fredrick Muya Makau, Matthew D. Nuth
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Patent number: 11260688Abstract: A fabric printable medium comprising a fabric base substrate, with an image-side and a back-side, having a water proofing treatment including a water-repellant agent applied thereto; an adhesion promoting layer, applied to the image-side of the fabric base substrate, comprising a polymeric compound and a physical networking component; an ink-receiving coating layer over the adhesion promoting layer, comprising a first and a second crosslinked polymeric network; and a barrier layer applied to the back-side of the fabric base substrate, comprising polymeric binders and filler particles with flame retardancy properties. Also disclosed are the method for making such fabric print medium and the method for producing printed images using said material.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Xulong Fu, Xiaoqi Zhou, Fredrick Muya Makau
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Patent number: 11236466Abstract: A fabric print medium can include a woven fabric substrate, a first barrier layer on an imaging side of the woven fabric substrate where the first barrier layer includes first barrier layer binder and first barrier layer flame retardant, a primer layer on the first barrier layer wherein the primer layer includes primer layer binder and primer layer pigment filler, an imaging layer on the primer layer where the imaging layer includes imaging layer film-forming binder and where the first barrier layer, the primer layer, and the imaging layer have a combined thickness from 10 ?m to 70 ?m, and a non-woven support layer on a back side of the woven fabric substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Xulong Fu, Xiaoqi Zhou, Fredrick Muya Makau
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Publication number: 20210324578Abstract: A fabric print medium can include a woven fabric substrate, a first barrier layer on an imaging side of the woven fabric substrate where the first barrier layer includes first barrier layer binder and first barrier layer flame retardant, a primer layer on the first barrier layer wherein the primer layer includes primer layer binder and primer layer pigment filler, an imaging layer on the primer layer where the imaging layer includes imaging layer film-forming binder and where the first barrier layer, the primer layer, and the imaging layer have a combined thickness from 10 ?m to 70 ?m, and a non-woven support layer on a back side of the woven fabric substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2018Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Xulong FU, Xiaoqi ZHOU, Fredrick Muya MAKAU
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Patent number: 11065900Abstract: Provided in one example herein is a method of printing. The method includes disposing onto a transfer paper an ink composition to form thereon an image, the ink composition including pigments and latex particulates. The method includes transferring the image from the imaged transfer paper onto a substrate comprising fabric by a lamination process. The lamination process includes: laminating together the substrate, the imaged transfer paper, and a release paper, whereby the image is transferred from the transfer paper onto the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Dheya M. Alfekri, Fredrick Muya Makau, Maria Jesus Perez
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Publication number: 20200230991Abstract: A fabric printable medium comprising a fabric base substrate, with an image-side and a back-side, having a water proofing treatment including a water-repellant agent applied thereto; an adhesion promoting layer, applied to the image-side of the fabric base substrate, comprising a polymeric compound and a physical networking component; an ink-receiving coating layer over the adhesion promoting layer, comprising a first and a second crosslinked polymeric network; and a barrier layer applied to the back-side of the fabric base substrate, comprising polymeric binders and filler particles with flame retardancy properties. Also disclosed are the method for making such fabric print medium and the method for producing printed images using said material.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2018Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Xulong Fu, Xiaoqi Zhou, Fredrick Muya Makau
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Publication number: 20180326773Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to embossed print media including a media substrate having a front side and a back side, an embossed image-receiving layer formed on the front side of the media substrate at a coating weight of 3 gsm to 50 gsm, and a fabric liner coupled to the back side of media substrate via an adhesive layer. The embossed image-receiving layer can include a first pigment filler and a first polymeric binder. The adhesive layer can be applied at a coating weight from 20 gsm to 40 gsm and can include a second polymeric binder and a flame-retarding filler.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Xiaoqi Zhou, Xulong Fu, Fredrick Muya Makau, Matthew D. Nuth
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Publication number: 20180001685Abstract: Provided in one example herein is a method of printing. The method includes disposing onto a transfer paper an ink composition to form thereon an image, the ink composition including pigments and latex particulates. The method includes transferring the image from the imaged transfer paper onto a substrate comprising fabric by a lamination process. The lamination process includes: laminating together the substrate, the imaged transfer paper, and a release paper, whereby the image is transferred from the transfer paper onto the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2015Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Dheya M. Alfekri, Fredrick Muya Makau, Maria Jesus Perez
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Patent number: 9375975Abstract: A canvas with a textured appearance includes a base layer, a gesso layer on the base layer, a microporous layer on the gesso layer, the microporous layer including uniform cracks formed according to a weave pattern of the base layer; and a transparent layer to fill the cracks. A method of forming a canvas with a textured appearance includes forming a base layer, forming a gesso layer on the base layer, forming a microporous layer on the gesso layer, the microporous layer comprising uniform cracks formed according to a weave pattern of the base layer, and forming a transparent layer to fill the cracks.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Fredrick Muya Makau, Dheya M. Alfekri
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Publication number: 20120213966Abstract: A canvas with a textured appearance includes a base layer, a gesso layer on the base layer, a microporous layer on the gesso layer, the microporous layer including uniform cracks formed according to a weave pattern of the base layer; and a transparent layer to fill the cracks. A method of forming a canvas with a textured appearance includes forming a base layer, forming a gesso layer on the base layer, forming a microporous layer on the gesso layer, the microporous layer comprising uniform cracks formed according to a weave pattern of the base layer, and forming a transparent layer to fill the cracks.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2011Publication date: August 23, 2012Inventors: Fredrick Muya Makau, Dheya M. Alfekri