US Patent Issued to Beckman Coulter on July 7 for "Flow cytometer alignment" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,739, issued on July 7, was assigned to Beckman Coulter Inc. (Brea, Calif.).

"Flow cytometer alignment" was invented by Antao Chen (Palmetto Bay, Fla.) and Eric Statler (Davie, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sorting flow cytometer receives a current alignment of a light beam, determines a difference between the current alignment of the light beam and a target alignment of the light beam, and calculates one or more voltage values based on the difference between the current alignment and the target alignment. The sorting flow cytometer uses the voltage values to adjust a position of at least one of a first alignment actuator exten...