US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on May 27 for "Systems for detecting light by spectral discrimination and methods for using same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,524, issued on May 27, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Systems for detecting light by spectral discrimination and methods for using same" was invented by Geoffrey Osborne (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Ihor V. Berezhnyy (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include systems for detecting light from a particle in a flow stream by spectral discrimination. Systems according to certain embodiments include a light source configured to irradiate a particle propagating along a flow stream through an interrogation region, a light detection system that includes a waveleng...