US Patent Issued to CYTONOME/ST on Aug. 4 for "Segmented side fluorescence detector flow cytometry" (Illinois, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,037, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CYTONOME/ST LLC (Lexington, Mass.).

"Segmented side fluorescence detector flow cytometry" was invented by Gary Durack (Urbana, Ill.) and William J. Williams V (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus for selecting cells is disclosed. An example embodiment provides spatial information denoting the location, on a four part array of sensors, referred to as a quad array, of the center, of each particle that passes through the focused laser beam in a cell sorter. The center of a particle is commonly determined by the average fluorescence intensity within the field ...