US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on June 30 for "Fluorescence imaging flow cytometry with enhanced image resolution" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,428, issued on June 30, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Fluorescence imaging flow cytometry with enhanced image resolution" was invented by Eric D. Diebold (Menlo Park, Calif.), Keegan O. Owsley (Campbell, Calif.), Jonathan Lin (San Gabriel, Calif.) and Matthew Bahr (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a system for performing flow cytometry is disclosed, which comprises a laser for generating laser radiation for illuminating a sample, at least one detector for detecting at least a portion of a radiation emanating from the sample in response to said illumination so as to gen...