WEI H ZHANG, CRNA
Nursing at Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX

2003017, Sep 18, 2003

Apr 25, 2002

10/132660

Wei Zhang - Houston TX, US
Limei Hu - Pearland TX, US
Stanley Hamilton - Bellaire TX, US

C12Q001/68, G01N033/53, C07H021/04, C12P019/34

435/006000, 435/007100, 435/091200, 536/024300

The present invention provides methods for the identification of promoters and transcription initiation sites. More particularly, the invention provides for the production of a promoter library, and uses of the library in the identification of transcription factors that interact with previously unidentified promoter elements.

2013004, Feb 21, 2013

Aug 19, 2011

13/213195

Wei Zhang - Houston TX, US
Christopher M. Jones - Houston TX, US
Michael T. Pelletier - Houston TX, US
Robert S. Atkinson - Richmond TX, US
Stephen A. Zannoni - Houston TX, US

HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES INC. - Houston TX

G06F 19/00

702 6

A processor accepts sensor data about a geological formation from a sensor. The sensor data is such that processing the sensor data using a processing technique to estimate a parameter of the geological formation without a constraint, whose value is not yet known, produces a plurality of non-unique estimates of the parameter. The processor accepts more than two time-displaced images of fluid sampled from the geological formation. The time displacements between the images are substantially defined by a mathematical series. The processor processes the images to determine the constraint. The processor processes the sensor data using the processing technique constrained by the constraint to estimate the parameter of the geological formation. The processor uses the estimated parameter to affect the drilling of a well through the geological formation.

2003010, Jun 12, 2003

Sep 9, 2002

10/237566

Wei Zhang - Houston TX, US
Wei Song - Houston TX, US
Greg Fuller - Houston TX, US

A61K048/00, A61K038/17, A01K067/027, C12Q001/68, G01N033/574, C12P021/02, C12N005/06, C07K014/47

435/006000, 435/007230, 435/069100, 435/320100, 435/325000, 514/044000, 514/012000, 530/350000, 536/023200, 800/018000

The present invention provides the identification of a tumor suppressor protein that binds to IGFBP2. This 388 amino acid protein, designated 86, contains an ICE-p20 domain, and is expressed in a number of normal tissues, include spleen, placenta, stomach, brain (including cerebellum) and liver. It also is expressed, ocassionally with a splice variant lacking a single exon, in various cancer cells including gliomas. Thus, methods for diagnosing and treating cancers having defects in the 86 gene are disclosed, as are methods for screening compounds for their ability to modulate 86 expression and function.

2014007, Mar 13, 2014

May 24, 2011

14/117542

Wei Zhang - Houston TX, US
Robert Atkinson - Richmond TX, US
Michael T. Pelletier - Houston TX, US
Christopher M. Jones - Houston TX, US

HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC. - Houston TX

G01N 21/25, G02B 26/00, G01V 8/00

250256, 359891

Downhole spectrometer tools are provided with two ways to increase the number of filters on an optical path. A first approach employs multiple filter wheels that rotate alternately in a common plane to intersect the optical path. Portions of the wheels are cut out to avoid mechanical interference between the wheels. A second approach drives the one or more filter wheels with a wobble that causes the filters to trace one or more hypocycloidal curves that each intersect the optical path.

2012016, Jul 5, 2012

Jul 30, 2009

13/386338

Christopher M. Jones - Houston TX, US
Michael T. Pelletier - Houston TX, US
Robert Atkinson - Richmond TX, US
Wei Zhang - Houston TX, US
Li Gao - Katy TX, US

Haliburton Energy Services Inc. - Houston TX

G01H 17/00, G01R 19/00, G01J 1/04, G01N 23/06, G01J 1/02, G01T 3/00

73646, 250216, 25039001, 250577, 25022711, 250311, 324 7611

Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive incident energy within a chamber defining a first part of an interaction volume that attenuates the incident energy as a function of path length to provide attenuated energy. Additional activity may include simultaneously transforming the attenuated energy characterized by a substantially exponential intensity function into resultant energy characterized by a substantially polynomial intensity function. The transformation may be accomplished using an interacted energy transformation element that defines a second part of the interaction volume, the transformation element operating to intercept the attenuated energy along a plurality of path lengths. Other activity may include transmitting the resultant energy to a receiver. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.