Patents by Inventor Minh Tong

Minh Tong 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: 8053400
    Abstract: A personal cleansing composition exhibiting enhanced skin feel (i.e., enhanced skin softness, reduced skin irritation, reduced residue, and reduced greasy, tacky, or tight skin feel), enhanced foaming and lather, and good cleansing, more specifically, a personal cleansing composition comprising a mixture of alpha sulfonated alkyl esters or sulfonated fatty acids, or salts thereof, with an alkyl sulfoacetate or ethoxylated alkyl sulfoacetate, or salts thereof, secondary surfactants, and optional additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Stepan Company
    Inventors: Xue Min Dong, Branko Sajic, Irene Shapiro, Minh Tong, John Frank Zamorski
  • Publication number: 20090227482
    Abstract: A personal cleansing composition exhibiting enhanced skin feel (i.e., enhanced skin softness, reduced skin irritation, reduced residue, and reduced greasy, tacky, or tight skin feel), enhanced foaming and lather, and good cleansing, more specifically, a personal cleansing composition comprising a mixture of alpha sulfonated alkyl esters or sulfonated fatty acids, or salts thereof, with an alkyl sulfoacetate or ethoxylated alkyl sulfoacetate, or salts thereof, secondary surfactants, and optional additives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2006
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventors: Xue Min Dong, Branko Sajic, Irene Shapiro, Minh Tong, John Frank Zamorski
  • Publication number: 20060156048
    Abstract: The amount of chip power that is consumed for cache storage size maintenance is optimized by the close monitoring and control of frequency of missed requests, and the proportion of frequently recurring items to all traffic items. The total number of hit slots is measured per interval of time and is compared to the theoretical value based on random distribution. If the missed rate is high, then the observed effect and value of increasing cache size are deduced by observing how this increase affects the distribution of hits on all cache slots. As the number of frequently hit items in proportion to the total traffic items increases, the benefits of increasing the cache size decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffery Hines, Clark Jeffries, Minh Tong
  • Publication number: 20050153853
    Abstract: A composition suitable for use in personal cleaning or detergent soap bars, which includes a sulfonated fatty acid or alpha sulfonated alkyl ester and a secondary synthetic surfactant, and methods for producing such a composition. The composition and methods exhibit efficient processing and allow for formation of cleansing or detergent bars with improved hardness, improved resistance to marring and improved processability, lowered wear-rate and decreased mush formation during consumer use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Branko Sajic, Carlos Ospinal, Chris Felski, Minh Tong, Thomas Giese, Matthew Levinson
  • Patent number: 6400171
    Abstract: A circuit and a method for automatically detecting an operating condition of an integrated circuit chip and for automatically outputting a control signal in response to automatically detecting one of at least two said operating conditions. With the preferred embodiment, FET off currents are reduced during burn-in of a CMOS integrated chip. This is done by a compact, local sensing circuit. The sensing circuit is off during the normal chip operation, and the sensing circuit is only used where needed to provide a local signal to cut down excessive FET off currents. The sensing circuit preferred embodiment is designed with an NFET bandgap device that employs a novel layout approach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corp.
    Inventors: Andres Bryant, William Clark, Edward J. Nowak, Minh Tong