US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on May 19 for "Multi-modal fluorescence imaging flow cytometry system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,546, issued on May 19, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Multi-modal fluorescence imaging flow cytometry system" was invented by Eric D. Diebold (Menlo Park, Calif.), Keegan Owsley (Campbell, Calif.) and Jonathan Lin (San Gabriel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the present teachings provide a system for performing cytometry that can be operated in three operational modes. In one operational mode, a fluorescence image of a sample is obtained by exciting one or more fluorophore(s) present in the sample by an excitation beam formed as a superposition of a top-hat-shaped beam with a pl...