Wai S Wong

6349264, Feb 19, 2002

Aug 12, 1998

09/133292

Norman K. Rhett - San Ramon CA
Ken K. Tseung - Fremont CA
Mark V. Corl - Fremont CA
Wai Bun Wong - Fremont CA
Ngoc Van Le - Milpitas CA

Lab Vision Corporation - Fremont CA

G01N 3353

702 19, 702 31, 422 63, 422 67

To simplify the process of preparing microscope slides, an automatic staining apparatus is disclosed. The disclosed automatic staining apparatus comprises an electromechanical automatic staining device that is coupled to a personal computer system using an interface card. An autostainer control program runs on the personal computer system. The autostainer control program allows a user to simply program the automatic staining apparatus using simple commands entered in the graphical user interface. The autostainer control program includes several features that simplify the programming such as safeguards that ensure compatible reagents are being used; automatic buffer solution requirement calculator; and the ability to determine optimal staining procedure. The electromechanical automatic staining device includes features such as dual waste bins for hazardous and nonhazardous waste storage, an automatic dispenser cleansing system; and slide clip that minimizes capillary effect.

6667674, Dec 23, 2003

Apr 12, 2002

10/122055

Thomas de Swiet - Redwood City CA
Wai Ha Wong - San Jose CA
Marco Romo - Castro Valley CA
James Finnigan - Santa Clara CA
Sean Burns - Mountain View CA

Varian, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

H01P 700

333219, 324318

A birdcage resonator has a pair of conductor rings separated from each other along a central axis and a plural number of axially disposed conductor rungs, which extend between the rings and are evenly spaced around the central axis. Each of the rungs has a sectional shape with thickness or a radial extension comparable to or greater than its width or its azimuthal extension. Measures of the width and thickness of the rungs may be determined by using them as parameters to calculate the values of Q factor from an analytical procedure to locate parameter value ranges corresponding to maximal Q. Geometric calculations for filling factor yield ranges of parameters providing for compromise parameter values. Saddle coils have been found to exhibit similar enhancement of Q with radially oriented conductor cross section.

6735531, May 11, 2004

Nov 13, 2001

10/010830

Norman K. Rhett - San Ramon CA
Ken K. Tseung - Fremont CA
Mark V. Corl - Castro Valley CA
Wai Bun Wong - Fremont CA
Ngoc Van Le - Milpitas CA
Glenn K. Takayama - Danville CA

Lab Vision Corporation - Fremont CA

G01N 3353

702 31, 702 19, 422 63, 422 67

To simplify the process of preparing microscope slides, an automatic staining apparatus is disclosed. The disclosed automatic staining apparatus comprises an electromechanical automatic staining device that is coupled to a personal computer system using an interface card. An autostainer control program runs on the personal computer system. The autostainer control program allows a user to simply program the automatic staining apparatus using simple commands entered in the graphical user interface. The autostainer control program includes several features that simplify the programming such as safeguards that ensure compatible reagents are being used; automatic buffer solution requirement calculator; and the ability to determine optimal staining procedure. The electromechanical automatic staining device includes features such as dual waste bins for hazardous and nonhazardous waste storage, an automatic dispenser cleansing system; and a slide clip that minimizes capillary effect.

6735851, May 18, 2004

Jan 8, 2002

10/043622

Marco A. Romo - Castro Valley CA
Wai Ha Wong - San Jose CA

Varian, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

H01F 706

29606, 29 2541, 29 2542, 29605, 29598, 324318, 324319, 324320, 324321, 324322, 324309

Superconducting birdcage coil with low-pass and high-pass coil configurations are formed by using strips each with an elongated sapphire substrate with a layer of a high temperature superconductor (HTS) material grown in a wavy pattern over its entire length on one of its main surfaces. A low-pass coil is formed with a pair of ring elements made of an electrically conductive metal and a plurality of such strips arranged parallel to one another and interconnecting these ring elements at junctions which are spaced peripherally along each of the rings. At each of the junctions, the ring element and the HTS layer form a capacitance. A high-pass coil is formed by a plurality of such strips each with electrodes of the HTS material also grown at two end positions separated from each other on the other main surface of its sapphire substrates. These strips are arranged parallel to each other and sequentially around a central axis, each lying in a plane which includes the center axis. The electrodes and the HTS layers on mutually adjacent pairs of strips are closely in face-to-face relationship so as to serve as the ring part of a birdcage configuration containing capacitors.

6876200, Apr 5, 2005

Mar 31, 2003

10/403064

Weston Anderson - Palo Alto CA, US
Wai Ha Wong - San Jose CA, US
James Finnigan - Santa Clara CA, US

Varian, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

G01V003/00

324318, 324322

A high resolution NMR probe having two or more resonators, an inner resonator which is closely coupled to a sample and is used to stimulate and receive a response from one nuclear species, and an outer resonator to induce transitions in another nuclear species, wherein the resonators may be provided with cooling capability and may be made of superconducting material, and wherein the inner resonator may be a saddle coil or a birdcage coil with capability of being tuned, and wherein the outer resonator may be one or more spiral wound saddle coil.

6927024, Aug 9, 2005

Nov 24, 1999

09/449204

Anthony H. Dodge - San Mateo CA, US
Yu-Ju G. Meng - Albany CA, US
Paul W. Sims - San Mateo CA, US
Dominick V. Sinicropi - Menlo Park CA, US
P. Mickey Williams - Half Moon Bay CA, US
Wai Lee Wong - Los Altos Hills CA, US

Genentech, Inc. - South San Francisco CA

C12Q001/68
C12P019/34
C07H021/04
C07K016/00

435 6, 435 71, 435 912, 435174, 536 231, 5303871, 5303911

An oligonucleotide assay is useful for the detection of target compounds in samples which may contain the target compound.

6998270, Feb 14, 2006

Nov 26, 2001

09/994458

Ken K. Tseung - Fremont CA, US
Norman K. Rhett - San Ramon CA, US
Glenn K. Takayama - Danville CA, US
Wai Bun Wong - Fremont CA, US
Delia P. Yuen - Cupertino CA, US

Lab Vision Corporation - Fremont CA

G01N 1/31
G01N 1/30
G01N 35/10

436 46, 436 43, 436 63, 436164, 436174, 422 63, 422 65, 422 67, 422 681, 422 8205, 422100, 422102, 435 405, 4352873, 4352887

An automated staining system and a reagent container designed for use with the automated staining apparatus. The reagent container includes a reagent containment section capable of containing a volume of a reagent. The reagent containment section includes an upper wall and a base wall that are spaced apart along an axis. The base wall includes a well having a nadir that is aligned axially with an access opening in the upper wall so that a reagent probe entering the opening parallel to said axis will travel toward the nadir. In another aspect of the invention, the reagent container may include a two-dimensional data element containing reagent information. The staining apparatus may include one removable drawer for holding reagent containers and another removable drawer holding slides.

7435383, Oct 14, 2008

Feb 9, 2006

11/351159

Ken K. Tseung - Fremont CA, US
Norman K. Rhett - San Ramon CA, US
Glenn K. Takayama - Danville CA, US
Wai Bun Wong - Fremont CA, US
Delia P. Yuen - Cupertino CA, US

Lab Vision Corporation - Fremont CA

G01N 1/31
G01N 1/30
G01N 35/10

422 67, 422 63, 422 65, 422 681, 422100, 422102, 436 43, 436 46, 436 63, 436174, 435 405, 4352873

An automated staining system and a reagent container designed for use with the automated staining apparatus. The reagent container includes a reagent containment section capable of containing a volume of a reagent. The reagent containment section includes an upper wall and a base wall that are spaced apart along an axis. The base wall includes a well having a nadir that is aligned axially with an access opening in the upper wall so that a reagent probe entering the opening parallel to the axis will travel toward the nadir. In another aspect of the invention, the reagent container may include a two-dimensional data element containing reagent information. The staining apparatus may include one removable drawer for holding reagent containers and another removable drawer for holding slides.