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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2012
Jason Philip Chaffey, Blackburn South, AU;
Miroslav Miljanic, Dandenong North, AU;
Jason Philip Chaffey, Blackburn South, AU;
Miroslav Miljanic, Dandenong North, AU;
BLUECHIP LIMITED, Scoresby, AU;
Abstract
A method of maintaining a thermal history () of samples stored in a temperature-controlled sample storage system is provided. The system can include: one or more containers () each storing one of the samples; one or more storage objects (---) each housing one or more containers or other storage objects; one or more structures (-) defining a temperature-controlled storage environment and housing the one or more storage objects; machine readable tags () each of which is associated with a separate container and storage object, each tag encoding an identification code and having a temperature-dependant characteristic; and an interrogator () for reading the identification code and the temperature-dependant characteristic.