US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Sept. 16 for "Methods and systems for characterizing spillover spreading in flow cytometer data" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,565, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Methods and systems for characterizing spillover spreading in 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 characterizing spillover spreading originating from a first fluorochrome in fluorescent flow cytometer data collected for a second fluorochrome are provided. In some embodiments, methods include partitioning the fluorescent flow cytometer data according to the intensity of the data relative to the first fluorochrome. In embodiments, methods also include estimating with ...