Wei S Lu, 73Houston, TX

2004023, Nov 25, 2004

Apr 30, 2004

10/835486

Wei Lu - San Diego CA, US

G01N033/558

436/514000, 435/970000, 435/287200

A chromatographic immunoassay test strip comprising of a solid support having the portions with said portions being in a strip so as to permit capillary flow communication with each other based on the help of adding a Buffer. This chromatographic immunoassay test strip herein changes the reaction order of the conventional chromatographic immunoassay solid test strip, wherein the analyte in the sample reacts with the specific binder (ligand A) immobilized on test zone prior to reacting with the ligand B/tracer. The reaction communication herein is achieved by a capillary flow aided by a Buffer. This solid chromatographic immunoassay test strip is useful in a variety of immunoassays.

2007023, Oct 11, 2007

Mar 23, 2007

11/690621

WEI LU - Fremont CA, US
Jianshe Tang - San Jose CA, US
Alexander Ko - Santa Clara CA, US
Nelson Yee - Redwood City CA, US
Bo Xie - Sunnyvale CA, US
John Lee - San Jose CA, US
Richard Endo - San Carlos CA, US

B05C 5/00

118300000, 134172000

The present invention provides methods, apparatus, and systems for cleaning a substrate that include a controller and a nozzle coupled to the controller. The controller is adapted to direct the nozzle to dispense a uniform fluid spray pattern onto a substrate. The controller is adapted create the uniform fluid spray pattern by adjusting at least one operational parameter of the nozzle to cause a predefined percentage of droplets to be within a predetermined size range. Numerous other aspects are disclosed.

2007024, Oct 25, 2007

Mar 23, 2007

11/690628

Wei Lu - Fremont CA, US
Jianshe Tang - San Jose CA, US
Alexander Ko - Santa Clara CA, US
Nelson Yee - Redwood City CA, US
Bo Xie - Sunnyvale CA, US
John Lee - San Jose CA, US
Rick Endo - San Carlos CA, US

B08B 3/00
B08B 7/00

134033000, 134034000, 134026000

The present invention provides methods, apparatus, and systems for cleaning a substrate that include a controller and a nozzle coupled to the controller. The controller is adapted to direct the nozzle to dispense a uniform fluid spray pattern onto a substrate. The controller is adapted create the uniform fluid spray pattern by adjusting at least one operational parameter of the nozzle to cause a predefined percentage of droplets to be within a predetermined size range. Numerous other aspects are disclosed.

2009026, Oct 22, 2009

Mar 2, 2009

12/380680

Chun Li - Missouri City TX, US
Wei Lu - Houston TX, US
Marites P. Melancon - Houston TX, US
Chiyi Xiong - Cypress TX, US
Jason Stafford - Houston TX, US
Jin Z. Zhang - Santa Cruz CA, US

A61K 9/14
G01N 33/53
B32B 5/16
A61P 35/00

424489, 435 71, 428402, 977773, 977927

Provided are novel nanostructures comprising hollow nanospheres and nanotubes for use as chemical sensors and molecular specific photothermal coupling agents. The nanostructures can be used in laser-induced phototherapy for treatment of cancer and other disorders. The nanostructures can also be used as a sensor that detects molecules. The nanostructures are of particular use in the fields of clinical diagnosis, clinical therapy, clinical treatment, and clinical evaluation of various diseases and disorders, manufacture of compositions for use in the treatment of various diseases and disorders, for use in molecular biology, structural biology, cell biology, molecular switches, molecular circuits, and molecular computational devices, and the manufacture thereof. The hollow gold nanospheres have a unique combination of spherical shape, small size, and strong, tunable, and narrow surface plasmon resonance absorption covering the entire visible to near IR region.

2012014, Jun 7, 2012

Jun 11, 2010

13/378440

James M. Tour - Bellaire TX, US
Dmitry Kosynkin - Houston TX, US
Michael Wong - Houston TX, US
Mason Tomson - Houston TX, US
Jacob Berlin - Houston TX, US
Ashley Leonard - Houston TX, US
Jay Lomeda - Houston TX, US
Wei Lu - Houston TX, US
Jie yu - Katy TX, US
Lunliang Zhang - Beijing, CN
Amy Kan - Houston TX, US

G01N 21/64
C07D 303/32
C07D 263/52
G01N 33/00
C09K 11/06
G01N 21/29
C07C 63/33
B82Y 15/00

436 27, 436 56, 436164, 549543, 562405, 548217, 2524081, 25230116, 428402, 73 5301, 977773

Compositions containing a transporter component and a signaling component and a method for using said compositions for analyzing porous media and flowing liquid streams, specifically for measuring pressure, temperature, relative abundance of water, pH, redox potential and electrolyte concentration. Analytes may include petroleum or other hydrophobic media, sulfur-containing compounds. The transporter component includes an amphiphilic nanomatenal and a plurality of solubilizing groups covalently bonded to the transporter component. The signaling component includes a plurality of reporter molecules associated with the transporter component. Said reporter molecules may be releasable from the transporter component upon exposure to at least one analyte. The reporter molecules may be non-covalently associated with the transporter component, or the reporter molecules are covalently bonded to the transporter component. Furthermore, said compositions and methods may be used to actively enhance oil recovery and for remediation of pollutants.

2022026, Aug 25, 2022

Feb 22, 2021

17/180975

- San Francisco CA, US
Wei Lu - San Bruno CA, US
Devina Jain - San Francisco CA, US
Kunal Mehta - San Francisco CA, US
Nikola John Linn Noxon - San Francisco CA, US

G06Q 10/02
B60W 50/14
B60W 60/00
G06Q 50/30

Various technologies described herein pertain to reserving seats in an autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle includes a plurality of seats that can be occupied by passengers when riding in the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is configured to assign a particular seat from the plurality of seats in the autonomous vehicle to a passenger based on information pertaining to the passenger and information pertaining to a ride-sharing trip. The autonomous vehicle is to transport at least the passenger and a differing passenger during at least a portion of the ride-sharing trip. Moreover, the passenger and the differing passenger independently request rides in the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is further configured to output, to the passenger, an indication of the particular seat assigned to the passenger.

2022025, Aug 11, 2022

Feb 9, 2021

17/171390

- San Francisco CA, US
Wei Lu - San Bruno CA, US
Devina Jain - San Francisco CA, US
Kunal Mehta - San Francisco CA, US
Nikola John Linn Noxon - San Francisco CA, US

G01C 21/34

An autonomous vehicle (AV) described herein is configured to receive a pull over location specified by a passenger, and is further configured to refine the pull over location based upon one or more factors, where the factors include computer-readable content from a profile of the passenger, sensor data output by sensor systems of the AV, observed or predicted weather conditions, observed or predicted traffic, and/or observations recently generated by other AVs that belong to the same fleet as the AV.

2022021, Jul 7, 2022

Jan 5, 2021

17/141622

- Santa Clara CA, US
Wei LU - Fremont CA, US
Haosheng WU - Santa Clara CA, US
Taketo SEKINE - Santa Clara CA, US
Hari N. SOUNDARARAJAN - Sunnyvale CA, US
Chad POLLARD - San Jose CA, US

H01L 21/67
H01L 21/02
B08B 3/02
B08B 3/08
B08B 5/02
B08B 3/12
H01L 21/306

The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for cleaning a substrate. The method includes rotating a substrate disposed on a substrate support and spraying a front side of the substrate using steam through a front side nozzle assembly. A back side of the substrate is sprayed using steam through a back side dispenser assembly. A heated chemical is dispensed over the front side of the substrate.