ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,178, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to VisionGate Inc. (Woodinville, Wash.).
"Specimen enrichment for optical tomography cell analysis" was invented by Timothy Bell (Phoenix), Alan C. Nelson (Gig Harbor, Wash.) and Michael G. Meyer (Phoenix).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for enhancing gating performance of a cell sorter to prepare an enriched specimen for optical tomography cell analysis includes introducing a specimen into a FACS to generate 2D event data; generating a first scatterplot of the 2D data; identifying target objects; constructing a boundary within the first scatterplot to produce a first gate; counting target ...