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

Claim 15:
16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium holding computing device-executable instructions for calibrating particle sorting in a fluid stream, the instructions when executed causing at least one computing device to:
deliver a sequence of two or more sortable units from a fluid stream to an inspection zone using a particle delivery device operatively connected to the at least one computing device;
interrogate the two or more sortable units using an electromagnetic radiation source at the inspection zone;
sort, using a sorter downstream of the electromagnetic radiation source, the two or more sortable units based on a characteristic thereof using a sort logic;
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 using a monitoring system;
sweep a sort delay in the sort logic while interrogating the adjacent non-targeted sortable units;
select a value for the sort delay for which a detected intensity from the adjacent non-targeted sortable units is minimum; and
determine if an operational parameter of the sort logic needs adjustment based upon a result of the interrogation of the adjacent non-targeted sortable units.