US Patent Issued to Beckman Coulter on Sept. 15 for "System and method of evaluating fluidic substance" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,457, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Beckman Coulter Inc. (Brea, Calif.).

"System and method of evaluating fluidic substance" was invented by Joanna Johnson (Chaska, Minn.), Taylor Gregory (Chaska, Minn.), Amit Sawhney (Chaska, Minn.) and Takayuki Mizutani (Chaska, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method (400) of evaluating a fluidic substance (10) having particles (11). The method (400) comprises capturing a reference image (202) of at least a portion of a container (102) that is in an empty state; determining a reference grayscale value (V1) of at least a portion of the reference image (20...