ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,170, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Cytometric bead array analysis" was invented by Miguel Velazquez-Palafox (Franklin Lakes, N.J.) and Ian Taylor (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein include systems, devices, and methods for cytometric bead array (CBA) analysis. After receiving user selections of a reporter fluorescent dye and clustering fluorescent dyes, gates for CBA event data corresponding to analytes in samples and standard curves for the analytes can be determined. Concentrations of the analytes in the samples can be determined using the sta...