US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Aug. 5 for "Flow cytometer with adjustable positional offset sort deflection plates and methods of using the same" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,302, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Flow cytometer with adjustable positional offset sort deflection plates and methods of using the same" was invented by Geoffrey Osborne (Bellbowrie, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include a particle sorter with a droplet deflector configured to apply a known offset deflection force to a droplet stream. Particle sorters according to certain embodiments include a flow cell, a light source, e.g., laser, for irradiating an interrogation point of the flow cell, a detector for detecting light from the interrog...