US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Dec. 23 for "Systems and user interface for collecting a data set in a flow cytometer" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,362, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Systems and user interface for collecting a data set in a flow cytometer" was invented by Collin A. Rich (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems in a flow cytometer having an interrogation zone and illumination impinging the interrogation zone include: a lens subsystem including a collimating element that collimates light from the interrogation zone, a light dispersion element that disperses collimated light into a light spectrum, and a focusing lens that focuses the light spectrum onto an array of adjacent detection points; a d...