ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,413, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Miftek Corp. (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Photon signal processing for particle detection" was invented by Masanobu Yamamoto (West Lafayette, Ind.), J. Paul Robinson (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Keegan Hernandez (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described wherein a plurality of lasers are used to irradiate particles in a flow cytometer's flow stream. In certain embodiments, a light source having a plurality of lasers configured for irradiation of a flow stream are disclosed where discrete intervals of irradiation by one or more discretely activated lasers are triggere...