SIMULACRUM LABWARE SUBSTITUTES AND METHODS THEREFOR

• Main Authors: GRIMWOOD, Robin, HARDING, David, A, CROQUETTE, Etienne, P
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 19.06.2024
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; BLASTING; COLD ROOMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; CONVEYING; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT COVERED BY ANY OTHERSUBCLASS; FISHING; FORESTRY; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; HEATING; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; ICE-BOXES; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; LIGHTING; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; MEASURING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PHYSICS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; REFRIGERATORS; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; TESTING; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING; TRAPPING; WEAPONS

A temperature controlled sample specimen laboratory storage system, for storing sample specimens disposed in one or more of labware units and labware devices, includes a refrigerated chamber with a storage array therein having predetermined storage locations defining a predetermined capacity of one or more of labware unit storage and labware device storage of the storage array, where the storage array has a predetermined area, and at least one simulacrum labware substitute having a predetermined characteristic that simulates a corresponding one of the one or more of the labware units and labware devices. The at least one simulacrum labware substitute is disposed within the storage array so that the predetermined capacity of the one or more of the labware unit storage and the labware device storage of the storage array, of predetermined area, is unconstrained by the at least one simulacrum labware substitute held in the storage location.