Patents by Inventor Phuong Bui
Phuong Bui 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: 20220112536Abstract: The present disclosure provides a reagent for detecting an analyte, comprising: an enzyme comprising glucose oxidoreductase; at least one electroactive molecule selected from resazurin, resazurin salt, resorufin or resorufin salt; and at least one metal coordination complex.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Ngoc Minh Phuong Bui, Janette Lackore, Jessica Gendron, Aaron Ivey
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Patent number: 11286327Abstract: A fire retardant (FR) composite composition, including a liquid polymer, wherein the liquid polymer includes a photopolymer including at least two of a first molecule, a second molecule, and a third molecule, a FR thermoset, and a photoinitiator.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Zak Eckel, Phuong Bui, Mark O'Masta, Jacob Hundley, Tony Koung
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Publication number: 20210171697Abstract: A fire retardant (FR) composite composition, including a liquid polymer, wherein the liquid polymer includes a photopolymer including at least two of a first molecule, a second molecule, and a third molecule, a FR thermoset, and a photoinitiator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Zak Eckel, Phuong Bui, Mark O'Masta, Jacob Hundley, Tony Kuong
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Publication number: 20210157031Abstract: The disclosed structure is configured such that it does not support electromagnetic waves having frequencies within a selected band gap; those electromagnetic waves are thus reflected. Some variations provide an omnidirectional infrared reflector comprising a three-dimensional photonic crystal containing: rods of a first material that has a first refractive index, wherein the rods are arranged to form a plurality of lattice periods in three dimensions, and wherein the rods are connected at a plurality of nodes; and a second material that has a refractive index that is lower than the first refractive index, wherein the rods are embedded in the second material. The lattice spacing and the rod radius or width are selected to produce a photonic band gap within a selected band of the infrared spectrum. Methods of making and using the three-dimensional photonic crystal are described. Applications include thermal barrier coatings and blackbody emission signature control.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Shanying CUI, Sean M. MEENEHAN, Tobias A. SCHAEDLER, Phuong BUI
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Patent number: 10961354Abstract: Some variations provide a preceramic resin precursor formulation comprising: first molecules comprising at least one Si—C bond and/or at least one Si—N bond, wherein the first molecules include at least one silyl hydride group (Si—H) available for hydrosilylation; and second molecules with at least one unsaturated carbon-carbon bond attached to a UV-active functional group. The first molecules and second molecules may be reacted, via hydrosilylation with a homogeneous or heterogeneous metal-containing catalyst, to produce third molecules comprising a hydrosilylation-modified polysilazane that contains the UV-active functional group. Many possible starting formulations are described, and methods are disclosed for carrying out the chemical reactions to generate the hydrosilylation-modified polysilazanes. The hydrosilylation-modified polysilazanes may then be 3D-printed and thermally treating to fabricate a ceramic material.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLCInventors: Zak C. Eckel, Ashley M. Dustin, April R. Rodriguez, Phuong Bui
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Patent number: 10851211Abstract: Some variations provide a preceramic resin precursor formulation comprising: first molecules comprising at least one Si—N bond and/or at least one Si—C bond; and second molecules of the formula R4—N?C?O or R4—N?C?S, wherein R4 is a UV-active functional group. In some embodiments, R4 is selected from acrylate, methacrylate, vinyl ether, epoxide, oxetane, thiol, or a combination thereof. The first and second molecules are reacted with an isocyanate or isothiocyanate to form third molecules, providing a preceramic radiation-curable resin composition. The resin composition contains at least one Si—N bond and/or at least one Si—C bond in the main chain of the third molecules. Side chains of the third molecules may be selected from hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbon groups, halides, esters, amines, hydroxyl, or cyano. The resin composition may be 3D printed and thermally treated to generate a ceramic material.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLCInventors: Zak C. Eckel, Ashley M. Dustin, April R. Rodriguez, Phuong Bui
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Patent number: 10822460Abstract: Some variations provide a preceramic resin precursor formulation comprising: first molecules containing at least one Si—N bond and/or at least one Si—C bond; and second molecules of the formula R4—N?C?S, wherein R4 may be a UV-active functional group. In some embodiments, R4 is selected from ethynyl, vinyl, allyl, acrylate, methacrylate, vinyl ether, epoxide, oxetane, thiol, thioketone, isothiocyanate, or combinations thereof. The first and second molecules are reacted with an isothiocyanate to form third molecules, providing a preceramic radiation-curable resin composition. The resin composition contains at least one Si—N bond and/or at least one Si—C bond in the main chain of the third molecules. Side chains of the third molecules may be selected from hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbon groups, halides, esters, amines, hydroxyl, or cyano. The resin composition may be 3D printed and thermally treated to generate a ceramic material.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLCInventors: Phuong Bui, Zak C. Eckel, April R. Rodriguez
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Publication number: 20200290931Abstract: This disclosure provides resin formulations which may be used for 3D printing and thermally treating to produce a ceramic material. The disclosure provides direct, free-form 3D printing of a preceramic polymer, followed by converting the preceramic polymer to a 3D-printed ceramic composite with potentially complex 3D shapes. A wide variety of chemical compositions is disclosed, and several experimental examples are included to demonstrate reduction to practice. For example, preceramic resin formulations may contain a carbosilane in which there is at least one functional group selected from vinyl, allyl, ethynyl, unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, ester group, amine, hydroxyl, vinyl ether, vinyl ester, glycidyl, glycidyl ether, vinyl glycidyl ether, vinyl amide, vinyl triazine, vinyl isocyanurate, acrylate, methacrylate, alkacrylate, alkyl alkacrylate, phenyl, halide, thiol, cyano, cyanate, or thiocyanate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Zak C. ECKEL, Andrew P. NOWAK, Ashley M. DUSTIN, April R. RODRIGUEZ, Phuong BUI, Tobias A. SCHAEDLER
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Patent number: 10728225Abstract: Embodiments include one or more client devices accessible by users, an online system, and one or more partner systems such that the online system is able to identify a user of the online system across different devices and browsers based on the user activity that occurs external to the online system. A user performs user actions (e.g. purchase a product) on a web page of a partner system and may provide personally identifiable information (PII) to the partner system. The partner system provides the hashed PII and user actions performed by the user to the online system. The online system identifies a user profile on the online system by matching personal information in the user profile to the hashed PII. The online system generates a confidence score indicating a likelihood that the identified user of the online system is the individual that performed the external user action.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Li Zhou, William Bullock, Anh Phuong Bui
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Patent number: 10528981Abstract: An online system selects advertisements for a user based on characteristics of the user. The online system presents advertisements to the user having targeting criteria satisfied by the characteristics of the user. To increase the number of users eligible to be presented with an advertisement, the online system increases the users eligible to be presented with the advertisement to include users that do not meet targeting criteria included in the advertisement. The online system obtains a percentile of users based on a performance metric associated with the advertisement and determines a cutoff measure of affinity based on the percentile and measures of affinity between various users and the advertisement. A user is eligible to be presented with the advertisement if a measure of affinity between the user and the advertisement is greater than the cutoff measure of affinity for the advertisement.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Gang Wu, Haibin Cheng, Xiao Zhang, Boris Pierre Arnoux, Anh Phuong Bui
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Patent number: 10448643Abstract: The invention provides for a low pH disinfectant composition that includes a relatively low amount of alcohol. Also provided is an article of manufacture that includes a textile and the composition, as well as methods of using the composition and article of manufacture (e.g., for reducing the number of microbes located upon a substrate, for killing or inhibiting a broad spectrum of microorganisms, for killing or inhibiting spore forming bacteria, and/or for disinfecting a substrate). The composition can optionally include a stable residual antimicrobial compound, thereby providing a combination of high-level disinfection and long-lasting residual effect.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Medivators Inc.Inventors: Huyen Phuong Bui, Adam W. Hauser, Thomas M. Gentle, Jonathan K. Olson, John J. Matta
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Patent number: 10318983Abstract: An online system selects advertisements for presentation a user based on characteristics of the user. The online system monitors performance of advertisements based on a goal for the advertisement and a time interval for achieving the goal. During a time period within the time interval, the online system determines an actual performance of the advertisement and compares the actual performance to a portion of the goal associated with the time period. If the actual performance does not satisfy the portion of the goal associated with the time period, the online system expands targeting criteria of the advertisement to increase a number of users eligible to be presented with the advertisement.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2014Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Gang Wu, Haibin Cheng, Xiao Zhang, Boris Pierre Arnoux, Anh Phuong Bui
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Patent number: 10270746Abstract: Embodiments include one or more client devices accessible by users, an online system, and one or more partner systems such that the online system is able to identify a user of the online system across different devices and browsers based on the user activity that occurs external to the online system. A user performs user actions (e.g. purchase a product) on a web page of a partner system and may provide personally identifiable information (PII) to the partner system. The partner system provides the hashed PII and user actions performed by the user to the online system. The online system identifies a user profile on the online system by matching personal information in the user profile to the hashed PII. The online system generates a confidence score indicating a likelihood that the identified user of the online system is the individual that performed the external user action.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Li Zhou, William Bullock, Anh Phuong Bui
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Publication number: 20180212931Abstract: Embodiments include one or more client devices accessible by users, an online system, and one or more partner systems such that the online system is able to identify a user of the online system across different devices and browsers based on the user activity that occurs external to the online system. A user performs user actions (e.g. purchase a product) on a web page of a partner system and may provide personally identifiable information (PII) to the partner system. The partner system provides the hashed PII and user actions performed by the user to the online system. The online system identifies a user profile on the online system by matching personal information in the user profile to the hashed PII. The online system generates a confidence score indicating a likelihood that the identified user of the online system is the individual that performed the external user action.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Li Zhou, William Bullock, Anh Phuong Bui
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Publication number: 20180139965Abstract: The invention provides for a low pH disinfectant composition that includes a relatively low amount of alcohol. Also provided is an article of manufacture that includes a textile and the composition, as well as methods of using the composition and article of manufacture (e.g., for reducing the number of microbes located upon a substrate, for killing or inhibiting a broad spectrum of microorganisms, for killing or inhibiting spore forming bacteria, and/or for disinfecting a substrate). The composition can optionally include a stable residual antimicrobial compound, thereby providing a combination of high-level disinfection and long-lasting residual effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2018Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Huyen Phuong Bui, Adam W. Hauser, Thomas M. Gentle, Jonathan K. Olson, John J. Matta
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Patent number: 9901100Abstract: The invention provides for a low pH disinfectant composition that includes a relatively low amount of alcohol. Also provided is an article of manufacture that includes a textile and the composition, as well as methods of using the composition and article of manufacture (e.g., for reducing the number of microbes located upon a substrate, for killing or inhibiting a broad spectrum of microorganisms, for killing or inhibiting spore forming bacteria, and/or for disinfecting a substrate). The composition can optionally include a stable residual antimicrobial compound, thereby providing a combination of high-level disinfection and long-lasting residual effect.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Medivators Inc.Inventors: Huyen Phuong Bui, Adam W. Hauser, Thomas M. Gentle, Jonathan K. Olson, John J. Matta
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Publication number: 20170245502Abstract: The invention provides for a low pH disinfectant composition that includes a relatively low amount of alcohol. Also provided is an article of manufacture that includes a textile and the composition, as well as methods of using the composition and article of manufacture (e.g., for reducing the number of microbes located upon a substrate, for killing or inhibiting a broad spectrum of microorganisms, for killing or inhibiting spore forming bacteria, and/or for disinfecting a substrate). The composition can optionally include a stable residual antimicrobial compound, thereby providing a combination of high-level disinfection and long-lasting residual effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2017Publication date: August 31, 2017Inventors: Huyen Phuong Bui, Adam W. Hauser, Thomas M. Gentle, Jonathan K. Olson, John J. Matta
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Patent number: 9693675Abstract: Provided herein is a composition that includes: (i) chelator (e.g., ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA)), (ii) buffer system (e.g., potassium phosphate dibasic and sodium hydroxide), (iii) cleaner (e.g., diethyl glycol monoethyl ether), (iv) solubilizer (e.g., propylene glycol), and (v) diluent (e.g., water), wherein the composition has a pH of at least about 9.5. Also provided is a method of cleaning a medical device that includes contacting the medical device with the composition described herein, for a period of time effective to clean the medical device. Subsequent to the cleaning, the medical device can optionally be disinfected, dried, and stored.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Medivators Inc.Inventors: John J. Matta, Tuan Nguyen, Huyen Phuong Bui
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Patent number: 9655368Abstract: The invention provides for a low pH disinfectant composition that includes a relatively low amount of alcohol. Also provided is an article of manufacture that includes a textile and the composition, as well as methods of using the composition and article of manufacture (e.g., for reducing the number of microbes located upon a substrate, for killing or inhibiting a broad spectrum of microorganisms, for killing or inhibiting spore forming bacteria, and/or for disinfecting a substrate). The composition can optionally include a stable residual antimicrobial compound, thereby providing a combination of high-level disinfection and long-lasting residual effect.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2016Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Medivators Inc.Inventors: Huyen Phuong Bui, Adam W. Hauser, Thomas M. Gentle, John J. Matta, Jonathan K. Olson
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Publication number: 20160374347Abstract: The invention provides for a low pH disinfectant composition that includes a relatively low amount of alcohol. Also provided is an article of manufacture that includes a textile and the composition, as well as methods of using the composition and article of manufacture (e.g., for reducing the number of microbes located upon a substrate, for killing or inhibiting a broad spectrum of microorganisms, for killing or inhibiting spore forming bacteria, and/or for disinfecting a substrate). The composition can optionally include a stable residual antimicrobial compound, thereby providing a combination of high-level disinfection and long-lasting residual effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Huyen Phuong Bui, Adam W. Hauser, Thomas M. Gentle, John J. Matta