ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,041, issued on July 15, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Laser light propagation systems for irradiating a sample in a flow stream and methods for using same" was invented by Bing Shan (San Jose, Calif.), Jizuo Zou (San Jose, Calif.), Svitlana Berezhna (Los Gatos, Calif.), Eric D. Diebold (Menlo Park, Calif.), An-Dien Nguyen (Fremont, Calif.), Fedor Ilkov (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Mark Dorighi (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include systems for irradiating a sample in a flow stream. Systems according to certain embodiments include a light propagator having a f...