ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,862, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The University of Western Australia (Nedlands, Australia).
"Cell analysis" was invented by Wendy Naomi Erber (Crawley, Australia), Kathryn Amanda Fuller (Morley, Australia) and Henry Yeuk Lam Hui (Kallaroo, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for cell analysis, comprising: preparing a blood sample comprising nucleated cells having surface, cytoplasmic or nuclear antigens (markers); antibody staining the cell markers; fixing and permeabilising the cells; FISH probe hybridising to chromosomes in the cells; performing imaging flow cytometry on the cells...