US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Aug. 4 for "Methods for determining absolute count of particles in a sample in a flow cytometer and systems for same" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,036, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Methods for determining absolute count of particles in a sample in a flow cytometer and systems for same" was invented by Pierce O. Norton (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for determining absolute count of particles in a sample in a flow cytometer. Methods according to certain embodiments include introducing a bubble into a flow stream propagating a sample having particles, irradiating the flow stream with a light source, detecting light from the irradiated particles with a photode...