Patent ID: 11858008
Assignee: CYTONOME/ST, LLC
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A system for sorting particles flowing in a fluid stream, comprising:
a particle delivery device for delivering a sequence of two or more sortable units from a fluid stream to an inspection zone;
an electromagnetic radiation source for interrogating the two or more sortable units at the inspection zone;
a sorter downstream of the electromagnetic radiation source to sort the two or more sortable units based on a characteristic thereof using a sort logic;
a monitoring system downstream of the sorter to interrogate non-targeted sortable units that were adjacent to targeted sortable units that are predicted to include one or more particles having a predetermined characteristic of interest in the sequence of sortable units; and
a processing unit operatively connected to the sorter and the monitoring system, the processing unit configured to execute instructions to adjust an operational parameter of the sort logic based upon a result of the interrogation of the adjacent non-targeted sortable units, and configured to execute instructions to sweep a sort delay parameter to determine crossing sort delay values where an intensity value received from the monitoring system crosses a threshold intensity value.