US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Aug. 12 for "Flow cytometers including light collection enhancers, and methods of using the same" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,821, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Flow cytometers including light collection enhancers, and methods of using the same" was invented by Ihor V. Berezhnyy (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Geoffrey Osborne (Bellbowrie, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flow cytometers including light collection enhancers are provided. In embodiments, the subject flow cytometers include a flow cell, a light source, an objective lens for focusing particle-modulated light propagating within a first light collection cone and a light collection enhancer configured to collect particle-modulated light propa...