ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,013, issued on June 23, was assigned to Bioventures LLC.
"Device and method for in vivo flow cytometry using the detection of photoacoustic waves" was invented by Vladimir Pavlovich Zharov (Little Rock, Ark.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoacoustic flow cytometry (PAFC) device for the in vivo detection of cells circulating in blood or lymphatic vessels is described. Ultrasound transducers attached to the skin of an organism detect the photoacoustic ultrasound waves emitted by target objects in response to their illumination by at least one pulse of laser energy delivered using at least one wavelength. The wavelengths of the las...