ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,311, issued on March 25, was assigned to ThinkCyte K.K. (Tokyo), University of Tokyo (Tokyo) and Osaka University (Osaka, Japan).
"Methods and systems for cytometry" was invented by Sadao Ota (Tokyo), Ryoichi Horisaki (Osaka, Japan), Yoko Kawamura (Tokyo), Masashi Ugawa (Tokyo) and Issei Sato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for ghost cytometry (GC), which may be used to produce an image of an object without using a spatially resolving detector. This may be used to perform image-free ultrafast fluorescence "imaging" cytometry, based on, for example, a single pixel detector. Sp...