ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,601, issued on April 29, was assigned to SYSMEX Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Flow cytometer, data transmission method, and information processing system" was invented by Hiroo Tatsutani (Kobe, Japan), Tomohiro Tsuji (Kobe, Japan) and Hajimu Kawakami (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flow cytometer according to one or more aspects may include: a particle data acquisition unit that measures particles in a sample to acquire particle data including optical information of the particles; and a transmission unit that transmits at least one of the particle data and data on a particle distribution diagram of the particles, generated based...