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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 02, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
George P. Kalmakis, Reading, MA (US);
R. Laurence Keene, N. Andover, MA (US);
Assignee:
Matrix Technologies Corporation, Hudson, NH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 9/00 ; B65D 8/520 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01L 9/00 ; B65D 8/520 ;
Abstract
A method of identifying and arranging test tubes, which includes providing a rack having an array of wells located at the intersection of mutually perpendicular columns and rows. The columns and rows are aligned on perpendicular edges of the rack. The test tubes are positioned in the wells and then marked with indicia to correspond to the location of the respective wells.