US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Aug. 11 for "Methods for modulation and synchronous detection in a flow cytometer and systems for same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,452, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Methods for modulation and synchronous detection in a flow cytometer and systems for same" was invented by Svitlana Berezhna (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Ihor V. Berezhnyy (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for determining a parameter of a particle in a flow stream (e.g., in a particle analyzer of a flow cytometer) from scattered light are described. Methods according to certain embodiments include irradiating a particle in a flow stream with a frequency-modulated beam of laser light modulated at a reference frequency, detectin...