ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,055, issued on May 12, was assigned to Beckman Coulter Biotechnology (Suzhou) Co. Ltd. (California, Canada) and Beckman Coulter Inc. (Brea, Calif.).

"System and method for calculating a droplet delay time, and sorting device" was invented by Jeff Degeal (Brea, Calif.), Robert Burr (Brea, Calif.), John Tyksinski (Brea, Calif.), Jingzhe Zhao (Suzhou, China), Sheng Yu (Suzhou, China) and Xuewen Qiao (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a system and a method for calculating a droplet delay time in a liquid flow of a sorting device. The system includes: a first laser source configured to emit a fi...