US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on May 13 for "Methods and systems for classifying fluorescent flow cytometer data" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,223, issued on May 13, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Methods and systems for classifying fluorescent flow cytometer data" was invented by Richard Lee Halpert (Ashland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for classifying fluorescent flow cytometer data are provided. In some instances, methods include processing the flow cytometer data with a supervised algorithm configured to cluster the fluorescent flow cytometer data into distinct populations according to the relationship of data points to relevant threshold values. In embodiments, methods include determining a measure of spillover spreadi...