Patents by Inventor Hien V. Nguyen

Hien V. Nguyen 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).

  • Patent number: 8319006
    Abstract: An absorbent article including a cover layer, a barrier layer and an absorbent system arranged between the cover layer and the barrier layer, the absorbent article being drapeable and possessing the absorbency attributes required of a sanitary napkin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: McNeil-PPC, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard G. Rosenfeld, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 7803145
    Abstract: An absorbent article including a cover layer, a barrier layer and an absorbent system arranged between the cover layer and the barrier layer, the absorbent article being drapeable and possessing the absorbency attributes required of a sanitary napkin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: McNeil-PPC, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard G. Rosenfeld, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 7771404
    Abstract: An absorbent article including a cover layer, a barrier layer and an absorbent system arranged between the cover layer and the barrier layer, the absorbent article being drapeable and possessing the absorbency attributes required of a sanitary napkin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: McNeil-PPC, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard G. Rosenfeld, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 7753897
    Abstract: An absorbent article including a cover layer, a barrier layer and an absorbent system arranged between the cover layer and the barrier layer, the absorbent article being drapeable and possessing the absorbency attributes required of a sanitary napkin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: McNeil-PPC, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard G. Rosenfeld, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20090287175
    Abstract: An absorbent article including a cover layer, a barrier layer and an absorbent system arranged between the cover layer and the barrier layer, the absorbent article being drapeable and possessing the absorbency attributes required of a sanitary napkin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Inventors: Leonard G. Rosenfeld, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 7566329
    Abstract: An absorbent article including a cover layer, a barrier layer and an absorbent system arranged between the cover layer and the barrier layer, the absorbent article being drapeable and possessing the absorbency attributes required of a sanitary napkin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: McNeil-PPC, Inc.
    Inventors: Leonard G. Rosenfeld, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20070219520
    Abstract: An absorbent article including a cover layer, a barrier layer and an absorbent system arranged between the cover layer and the barrier layer, the absorbent article being drapeable and possessing the absorbency attributes required of a sanitary napkin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Leonard G. Rosenfeld, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20070219517
    Abstract: An absorbent article including a cover layer, a barrier layer and an absorbent system arranged between the cover layer and the barrier layer, the absorbent article being drapeable and possessing the absorbency attributes required of a sanitary napkin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Leonard G. Rosenfeld, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20070219519
    Abstract: An absorbent article including a cover layer, a barrier layer and an absorbent system arranged between the cover layer and the barrier layer, the absorbent article being drapeable and possessing the absorbency attributes required of a sanitary napkin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Leonard G. Rosenfeld, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20070219518
    Abstract: An absorbent article including a cover layer, a barrier layer and an absorbent system arranged between the cover layer and the barrier layer, the absorbent article being drapeable and possessing the absorbency attributes required of a sanitary napkin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Leonard G. Rosenfeld, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 6719770
    Abstract: An ultrasonic medical or surgical device creates holes in heart tissue utilizing an ultrasonic needle or probe. The ultrasonic needle is inserted into heart tissue and activated to cause cavitation of fluid surrounding the needle. The cavitation heats the surrounding tissue and causes reversible tissue damage. The ultrasonic device consists of a transducer, a needle, and a regulator. The device can be a hand held device for external application or may be a catheter device for performing a minimally invasive procedure. A temperature sensor may be positioned on the needle for sensing a temperature of the heart tissue in which the needle has been inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Inventors: Michael D. Laufer, Bruce D. Stambaugh, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20010025185
    Abstract: An ultrasonic medical or surgical device creates holes in heart tissue utilizing an ultrasonic needle or probe. The ultrasonic needle is inserted into heart tissue and activated to cause cavitation of fluid surrounding the needle. The cavitation heats the surrounding tissue and causes reversible tissue damage. The ultrasonic device consists of a transducer, a needle, and a regulator. The device can be a hand held device for external application or may be a catheter device for performing a minimally invasive procedure. A temperature sensor may be positioned on the needle for sensing a temperature of the heart tissue in which the needle has bee inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Inventors: Michael D. Laufer, Bruce D. Stambaugh, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 6283935
    Abstract: An ultrasonic medical or surgical device creates holes in heart tissue utilizing an ultrasonic needle or probe. The ultrasonic needle is inserted into heart tissue and activated to cause cavitation of fluid surrounding the needle. The cavitation heats the surrounding tissue and causes reversible tissue damage. The ultrasonic device consists of a transducer, a needle, and a regulator. The device can be a hand held device for external application or may be a catheter device for performing a minimally invasive procedure. A temperature sensor may be positioned on the needle for sensing a temperature of the heart tissue in which the needle has bee inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Hearten Medical
    Inventors: Michael D. Laufer, Bruce D. Stambaugh, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 6106520
    Abstract: A minimally invasive medical or surgical device creates holes in heart tissue utilizing a needle connected to an energy source, such a radio frequency generator, a resistive heating source, or a microwave energy source. The needle is inserted into heart tissue from an interior of the heart and activated to heat the surrounding tissue in order to produce reversible tissue damage. The device consists of an energy source and regulator, electric contacts to the energy source, a catheter, and a needle at the distal end of the catheter for delivering energy to the heart tissue. The catheter is fed through the vasculature into the interior of the heart. A temperature sensor may be positioned on the needle for sensing a temperature of the heart tissue in which the needle has been inserted. Preferably, a regulator is connected to the energy source and to the temperature sensor for controlling the temperature of the heart tissue in which the needle has been inserted to about 40.degree. C. to about 60.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Hearten Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Laufer, Bruce D. Stambaugh, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 5919200
    Abstract: The present invention provides a device and method for closing a patent foramen ovale. The present invention comprises a catheter sheath with proximal and distal ends. A balloon catheter with a plurality of abrasive members is deployably retained within the catheter sheath. Once the catheter sheath is placed by a treating health care professional across a patent foramen ovale, the balloon catheter is advanced such that the balloon and the abrasive members are deployed outside of the distal end of the catheter sheath. The catheter sheath is then removed from the foramen ovale and the balloon is inflated. The treating healthcare professional then abrades the inner surfaces of the patent foramen ovale to thereby cause an area of thrombogenesis. The balloon catheter is then deflated and the abrasive members are then repositioned into the distal end of the catheter sheath and then removed from the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1999
    Assignee: Hearten Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce D. Stambaugh, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 5630797
    Abstract: An everting catheter system comprising an elongated outer tubular body having an outer body lumen and an opening leading from the outer body lumen, an elongated inner tubular body movable longitudinally in the outer body lumen and having an inner body lumen and an everting element coupled to the outer body and the inner body so that with movement of the inner body longitudinally in the outer body lumen the everting element can be everted and inverted. The system also includes an elongated instrument, such as a transfer catheter, movable longitudinally in the inner body lumen relative to the inner body. A coupling releasably couples the instrument to the outer body in a substantially fixed longitudinal position with respect to the outer body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1997
    Assignee: Imagyn Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Klaus Diedrich, Otmar Bauer, Guy R. Lowery, Steven R. Bacich, Hien V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 5413676
    Abstract: A cellulosic fiber of improved wettability comprising cellulosic fibers with small discrete crystal domain of ionic salt attached to the surface of the fiber. The method of making the cellulosic fiber of improved wettability is also claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1995
    Assignee: Chicopee
    Inventors: Hien V. Nguyen, Cecilia Vargas
  • Patent number: 5314582
    Abstract: A cellulosic fiber of improved wettability comprising cellulosic fibers with small discrete crystal domain of ionic salt attached to the surface of the fiber. The method of making the cellulosic fiber of improved wettability is also claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1994
    Assignee: Chicopee
    Inventors: Hien V. Nguyen, Cecilia Vargas
  • Patent number: 5196456
    Abstract: Superabsorbents made by the process of electron beam initiated polymerization of partially neutralized acrylic acid having improved absorbencies when a trivalent cationic salt, for example, Aluminum Acetate or a tetravalent cationic salt, for example, Platinum Tetrachloride, are added to the partially neutralized acrylic acid solution before polymerization is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1993
    Assignee: Chicopee
    Inventors: Hien V. Nguyen, Franklin Boardman
  • Patent number: 5175046
    Abstract: A laminated structure in which a superabsorbent material is provided as a layer of discrete discontinuous chunks or elements attached to a continuous porous support layer. The superabsorbent element is provided by saturating a porous substrate with an acrylic acid monomer solution, polymerizing and crosslinking the monomer in the web, and then dicing the monomer/web substrate to produce discrete superabsorbent elements. The superabsorbent elements having various shaped are then affixed to the flexible porous support layer by friction so as to provide the flexible superabsorbent laminated structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Chicopee
    Inventor: Hien V. Nguyen