US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on March 3 for "Method and systems for characterizing and encoding a light detection system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,123, issued on March 3, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Method and systems for characterizing and encoding a light detection system" was invented by David Roberts (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Ludington Mage (Goleta, Calif.) and Shreyas Bhaban (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for determining a parameter of a photodetector (e.g., a photodetector in a particle analyzer). Methods according to certain embodiments include detecting light from a light source with a photodetector for a first predetermined time interval, detecting a step signal wi...