US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on May 27 for "Cell sorting using a high throughput fluorescence flow cytometer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,521, issued on May 27, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Cell sorting using a high throughput fluorescence flow cytometer" was invented by Eric D. Diebold (Menlo Park, Calif.), Keegan O. Owsley (Campbell, Calif.) and Jonathan Lin (San Gabriel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method of sorting cells in a flow cytometry system is disclosed, which includes illuminating a cell with radiation having at least two optical frequencies shifted from one another by a radiofrequency to elicit fluorescent radiation from the cell, detecting the fluorescent radiation to generate temporal fluore...