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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2019
David B. Miller, Concord, CA (US);
David B. Miller, Concord, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A camera box for capturing and processing bar code images on the bottom ends of laboratory tubes in a laboratory tube rack of standard size with laboratory tube compartments each having a bottom aperture utilizing a smart phone camera, the camera box including a housing with a top deck and sides with one side having a lower side opening, the top deck of the housing having an opening sized to view the underside of a rack when the tube rack is seated on the top deck over the opening and including a camera tray that supports a smart phone camera, wherein the side opening of the camera box housing is sized to receive the camera tray and a supported smart phone camera into the housing under the housing opening and a rack with at least one laboratory tube seated on the top deck, wherein on activation of the smart phone camera, an image of the underside of the rack and the barcode of any laboratory tube in the rack is captured and processed.