Patent ID: 8889072

Claim:
A system for sorting particles from a particle stream, comprising: (a) a flow cytometer; and (b) a computer coupled to the flow cytometer, wherein the computer comprises: (i) an input device that receives a sort logic definition; (ii) a sort parameters module that calculates while a particle is passing through the flow cytometer one or more sort decision making parameters based on raw event data values for the particle passing through the flow cytometer received from the flow cytometer and the sort logic definition; and (iii) a sort decision module wherein the sort decision module determines one or more sort decisions by performing sort logic computations while the particle is passing through the flow cytometer using the sort logic definition and the one or more sort decision making parameters, and wherein the sort decision module converts the one or more sort decisions into one or more sort commands to control the sorting of the particle and sends the one or more sort commands to the flow cytometer.