Patents by Inventor Minh Anh Nguyen
Minh Anh 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).
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Patent number: 10814208Abstract: A method for delivering sports telemetry for a curling game provides players, coaches, and viewers with the detailed dynamics of a curling stone. The method is generalized to at least one computerized sports equipment in communication with at least one remote server. A sensing module of the sports equipment captures and sends an angular-motion measurement and a linear-motion measurement to the remote server. Further, a tracking module of the sports equipment sends a precise location reading to the remote server. The angular-motion measurement, the linear-motion measurement, and the precise location reading are compiled into a sports telemetry data. Subsequently, the sports telemetry data assess a plurality of summarization metrics which promotes game awareness and interest. Further, the sports telemetry data also generates at least one equipment motion animation of play-by-play breakdown of the game. Finally, an online view platform allows the general public to access the sports telemetry data.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Inventors: Howard Thaw, Chun Mei Gao, Ian Kennneth MacAulay, Minh Anh Nguyen
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Publication number: 20190321710Abstract: A method for delivering sports telemetry for a curling game provides players, coaches, and viewers with the detailed dynamics of a curling stone. The method is generalized to at least one computerized sports equipment in communication with at least one remote server. A sensing module of the sports equipment captures and sends an angular-motion measurement and a linear-motion measurement to the remote server. Further, a tracking module of the sports equipment sends a precise location reading to the remote server. The angular-motion measurement, the linear-motion measurement, and the precise location reading are compiled into a sports telemetry data. Subsequently, the sports telemetry data assess a plurality of summarization metrics which promotes game awareness and interest. Further, the sports telemetry data also generates at least one equipment motion animation of play-by-play breakdown of the game. Finally, an online view platform allows the general public to access the sports telemetry data.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Howard Thaw, Chun Mei Gao, Ian Kennneth MacAulay, Minh Anh Nguyen
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Patent number: 9466499Abstract: A substrate having a plurality of site-isolated regions defined thereon is provided. A first electrochromic material, or a first electrochromic device stack, is formed above a first of the plurality of site-isolated regions using a first set of processing conditions. A second electrochromic material, or a second electrochromic device stack, is formed above a second of the plurality of site-isolated regions using a second set of processing conditions. The second set of processing conditions is different than the first set of processing conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 11, 2016Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Jeroen Van Duren, Minh Huu Le, Minh Anh Nguyen, Sandeep Nijhawan
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Patent number: 9408303Abstract: Coated articles are disclosed. The coated articles include a doped or alloyed silver layer sandwiched between two layers of transparent conductive oxide such as indium tin oxide (ITO). The doped silver or silver alloy layer can be thin, such as between 1. 5 to 20 nm and thus can be transparent. The doped silver or silver alloy can provide improved ductility property, allowing the conductive stack to be bendable. The transparent conductive oxide layers can also be thin, allowing the conductive stack can have improved ductility property.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Mohd Fadzli Anwar Hassan, Guowen Ding, Minh Huu Le, Minh Anh Nguyen, Zhi-Wen Sun, Guizhen Zhang
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Patent number: 9315414Abstract: Embodiments provided herein describe a low-e panel and a method for forming a low-e panel. A transparent substrate is provided. A metal oxide layer is formed over the transparent substrate. The metal oxide layer includes a first element, a second element, and a third element. A reflective layer is formed over the transparent substrate. The first element may include tin or zinc. The second element and the third element may each include tin, zinc, antimony, silicon, strontium, titanium, niobium, zirconium, magnesium, aluminum, yttrium, lanthanum, hafnium, or bismuth. The metal oxide layer may also include nitrogen.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignees: Intermolecular, Inc., Guardian Industries Corp.Inventors: Mohd Fadzli Anwar Hassan, Richard Blacker, Guowen Ding, Jingyu Lao, Minh Huu Le, Yiwei Lu, Minh Anh Nguyen, Zhi-Wen Sun
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Patent number: 9099582Abstract: The present disclosure includes a texture formulation that includes an aliphatic diol, an alkaline compound and water which provides a consistent textured region across a silicon surface suitable for solar cell applications. The current invention describes silicon texturing formulations that include at least one high boiling point additive. The high boiling point additive may be a derivative compound of propylene glycol or a derivative compound of ethylene glycol. Processes for texturing a crystalline silicon substrate using these formulations are also described. Additionally, a combinatorial method of optimizing the textured surface of a crystalline silicon substrate is described.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Zhi-Wen Sun, Nikhil Kalyankar, Nitin Kumar, Minh Anh Nguyen, Sagar Vijay
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Patent number: 9081245Abstract: Embodiments provided herein describe electrochromic devices and methods for forming electrochromic devices. The electrochromic devices include a transparent substrate, a transparent conducting oxide layer coupled to the transparent substrate, and a layer of electrochromic material coupled to the transparent conducting oxide layer. The transparent conducting oxide layer includes indium and zinc.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2013Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Minh Huu Le, Thai Cheng Chua, Guowen Ding, Minh Anh Nguyen, Yu Wang, Guizhen Zhang
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Patent number: 9045363Abstract: Embodiments provided herein describe a low-e panel and a method for forming a low-e panel. A transparent substrate is provided. A metal oxide layer is formed over the transparent substrate. The metal oxide layer includes a first element, a second element, and a third element. A reflective layer is formed over the transparent substrate. The first element may include tin or zinc. The second element and the third element may each include tin, zinc, antimony, silicon, strontium, titanium, niobium, zirconium, magnesium, aluminum, yttrium, lanthanum, hafnium, or bismuth. The metal oxide layer may also include nitrogen.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignees: Intermolecular, Inc., Guardian Industries Corp.Inventors: Mohd Fadzli Anwar Hassan, Richard Blacker, Guowen Ding, Jingyu Lao, Hien Minh Huu Le, Yiwei Lu, Minh Anh Nguyen, Zhi-Wen Sun
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Patent number: 9011969Abstract: Embodiments provided herein describe a low-e panel and a method for forming a low-e panel. A transparent substrate is provided. A metal oxynitride layer is formed over the transparent substrate. The metal oxynitride layer includes a first metal and a second metal. A reflective layer is formed over the transparent substrate.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignees: Intermolecular, Inc., Guardian Industries Corp.Inventors: Mohd Fadzli Anwar Hassan, Richard Blacker, Yiwei Lu, Minh Anh Nguyen, Zhi-Wen Sun, Guowen Ding, Jingyu Lao, Hien Minh Huu Le
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Patent number: 8912518Abstract: Provided are semiconductor devices, such as resistive random access memory (ReRAM) cells, that include current limiting layers formed from doped metal oxides and/or nitrides. These current limiting layers may have resistivities of at least about 1 Ohm-cm. This resistivity level is maintained even when the layers are subjected to strong electrical fields and/or high temperature annealing. In some embodiments, the breakdown voltage of a current limiting layer may be at least about 8V. Some examples of such current limiting layers include titanium oxide doped with niobium, tin oxide doped with antimony, and zinc oxide doped with aluminum. Dopants and base materials may be deposited as separate sub-layers and then redistributed by annealing or may be co-deposited using reactive sputtering or co-sputtering. The high resistivity of the layers allows scaling down the size of the semiconductor devices including these layer while maintaining their performance.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: David Chi, Vidyut Gopal, Minh Huu Le, Minh Anh Nguyen, Dipankar Pramanik, Milind Weling
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Publication number: 20140272112Abstract: Embodiments provided herein describe methods and systems for evaluating electrochromic material processing conditions. A substrate having a plurality of site-isolated regions defined thereon is provided. A first electrochromic material, or a first electrochromic device stack, is formed above a first of the plurality of site-isolated regions using a first set of processing conditions. A second electrochromic material, or a second electrochromic device stack, is formed above a second of the plurality of site-isolated regions using a second set of processing conditions. The second set of processing conditions is different than the first set of processing conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Jeroen Van Duren, Minh Huu Le, Minh Anh Nguyen, Sandeep Nijhawan
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Publication number: 20140273407Abstract: Methods and compositions for the surface cleaning and passivation of CdTe substrates usable in solar cells are disclosed. In some embodiments amine-containing chelators are used and in other embodiments phosphorus-containing chelators are used.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: FIRST SOLAR, INC.Inventors: Scott Christensen, Scott Jewhurst, Minh Huu Le, Haifan Liang, Hao Lin, Wei Liu, Minh Anh Nguyen, Zhi Wen Sun, Gang Xiong
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Publication number: 20140231704Abstract: The present disclosure includes a texture formulation that includes an aliphatic diol, an alkaline compound and water which provides a consistent textured region across a silicon surface suitable for solar cell applications. The current invention describes silicon texturing formulations that include at least one high boiling point additive. The high boiling point additive may be a derivative compound of propylene glycol or a derivative compound of ethylene glycol. Processes for texturing a crystalline silicon substrate using these formulations are also described. Additionally, a combinatorial method of optimizing the textured surface of a crystalline silicon substrate is described.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Zhi-Wen Sun, Nikhil Kalyankar, Nitin Kumar, Minh Anh Nguyen, Sagar Vijay
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Publication number: 20140124725Abstract: Provided are semiconductor devices, such as resistive random access memory (ReRAM) cells, that include current limiting layers formed from doped metal oxides and/or nitrides. These current limiting layers may have resistivities of at least about 1 Ohm-cm. This resistivity level is maintained even when the layers are subjected to strong electrical fields and/or high temperature annealing. In some embodiments, the breakdown voltage of a current limiting layer may be at least about 8V. Some examples of such current limiting layers include titanium oxide doped with niobium, tin oxide doped with antimony, and zinc oxide doped with aluminum. Dopants and base materials may be deposited as separate sub-layers and then redistributed by annealing or may be co-deposited using reactive sputtering or co-sputtering. The high resistivity of the layers allows scaling down the size of the semiconductor devices including these layer while maintaining their performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: INTERMOLECULAR, INC.Inventors: David Chi, Vidyut Gopal, Minh Huu Le, Minh Anh Nguyen, Dipankar Pramanik, Milind Weling
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Publication number: 20140092462Abstract: Embodiments provided herein describe electrochromic devices and methods for forming electrochromic devices. The electrochromic devices include a transparent substrate, a transparent conducting oxide layer coupled to the transparent substrate, and a layer of electrochromic material coupled to the transparent conducting oxide layer. The transparent conducting oxide layer includes indium and zinc.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Minh Huu Le, Thai Cheng Chua, Guowen Ding, Minh Anh Nguyen, Yu Wang, Guizhen Zhang
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Patent number: 8665511Abstract: Embodiments provided herein describe electrochromic devices and methods for forming electrochromic devices. The electrochromic devices include a transparent substrate, a transparent conducting oxide layer coupled to the transparent substrate, and a layer of electrochromic material coupled to the transparent conducting oxide layer. The transparent conducting oxide layer includes indium and zinc.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Hien Minh Huu Le, Thai Cheng Chua, Guowen Ding, Minh Anh Nguyen, Yu Wang, Guizhen Zhang
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Publication number: 20130340805Abstract: Embodiments of the current invention describe methods of forming different types of crystalline silicon based solar cells that can be combinatorially varied and evaluated. Examples of these different types of solar cells include front and back contact silicon based solar cells, all-back contact solar cells and selective emitter solar cells. These methodologies all incorporate the formation of site-isolated regions using a combinatorial processing tool and the use of these site-isolated regions to form the solar cell area. Therefore, multiple solar cells may be rapidly formed on a single crystalline silicon substrate for use in combinatorial methodologies. Any of the individual processes of the methods described may be varied combinatorially to test varied process conditions or materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: INTERMOLECULAR, INC.Inventors: Jian Li, James Craig Hunter, Nikhil Kalyankar, Nitin Kumar, Minh Anh Nguyen
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Patent number: 8574949Abstract: Embodiments of the current invention describe methods of forming different types of crystalline silicon based solar cells that can be combinatorially varied and evaluated. Examples of these different types of solar cells include front and back contact silicon based solar cells, all-back contact solar cells and selective emitter solar cells. These methodologies all incorporate the formation of site-isolated regions using a combinatorial processing tool and the use of these site-isolated regions to form the solar cell area. Therefore, multiple solar cells may be rapidly formed on a single crystalline silicon substrate for use in combinatorial methodologies. Any of the individual processes of the methods described may be varied combinatorially to test varied process conditions or materials.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Jian Li, Minh Anh Nguyen, Nikhil Kalyankar, Nitin Kumar, Craig Hunter
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Patent number: 8492189Abstract: Embodiments of the current invention include methods of improving a process of forming a textured TCO film by combinatorial methods. The combinatorial method may include depositing a TCO by physical vapor deposition or sputtering, annealing the TCO, and etching the TCO where at least one of the depositing, the annealing, or the etching is performed combinatorially. Embodiments of the current invention also include improved methods of forming the TCO based on the results of combinatorial testing.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Zhi-Wen Sun, Nitin Kumar, Guizhen Zhang, Nikhil Kalyankar, Minh Anh Nguyen
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Patent number: 8486282Abstract: Surface texturing of the transparent conductive oxide (TCO) front contact of a thin film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell is needed to enhance the light-trapping capability of the TFPV solar cells and thus improving the solar cell efficiency. Embodiments of the current invention describe chemical formulations and methods for the wet etching of the TCO. The formulations and methods may be optimized to tune the surface texturing of the TCO as desired.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.Inventors: Zhi-Wen Sun, Nitin Kumar, Guizhen Zhang, Minh Anh Nguyen, Nikhil Kalyankar