ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,260, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Methods and systems for adjusting a training gate to accommodate flow cytometer data" was invented by Allison Irvine (Oakland, Calif.), Nikolay Samusik (Jacksonville, Ore.) and Joseph T. Trotter (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for adjusting a training gate prepared from a first set of flow cytometer data to accommodate a second set of flow cytometer data are provided. In embodiments, methods include generating an image for each of the first and second sets of flow cytometer data. In some instances, generating an image incl...