US Patent Issued to Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce on Sept. 30 for "Serial flow cytometer" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,412, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Commerce (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Serial flow cytometer" was invented by Gregory Alan Cooksey (Gaithersburg, Md.), Paul Nathan Patrone (Washington Grove, Md.) and Anthony Jose Kearsley (Hanover, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention described herein provide a device that can measure a single particle in flow several times along a microchannel with integrated waveguides that carry optical signals (e.g. excitation, emission, transmission, and scattered light) to and from measurement reg...