US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Oct. 7 for "Systems for detecting light by birefringent Fourier transform interferometry and methods for using same" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,083, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Systems for detecting light by birefringent Fourier transform interferometry and methods for using same" was invented by 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 by birefringent interferometry. Systems according to certain embodiments include a light source configured to irradiate a particle propagating through a flow stream, a light detection system that includes a birefringent polarizing interferometer configured to generate interferi...