US 11,857,017 B2
Intelligent laboratory lockbox system
Joseph Rose, Grand Blanc, MI (US); John Easler, Green Cove Springs, FL (US); James Williams, Matthews, NC (US); Jeff Raines, Harrisburg, NC (US); Nghia Tran, Kansas City, MO (US); Dustin Scholz, Kansas City, MO (US); and John Christopher Penrod, Kansas City, MO (US)
Assigned to CERNER INNOVATION, INC., Kansas City, MO (US)
Filed by CERNER INNOVATION, INC., Kansas City, KS (US)
Filed on Jun. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/896,923.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/859,989, filed on Jun. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0394602 A1, Dec. 17, 2020
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0633 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0832 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0833 (2023.01); A42B 1/22 (2006.01)
CPC A42B 1/225 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/0633 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0832 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01); Y10T 24/32 (2015.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. One or more non-transitory computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations, the operations comprising:
measuring an internal temperature of a vault unit of an intelligent laboratory lockbox system with at least a temperature sensor;
based on at least the internal temperature, transmitting an instruction that controls the intelligent laboratory lockbox system to activate cooling functions to self-regulate the internal temperature to a first temperature;
identifying, by a sensor that senses a presence of a specimen within the vault unit, a load status of the vault unit of the intelligent laboratory lockbox system, wherein the load status includes one of a loaded status or an unloaded status;
receiving an indication of a change in the load status from the vault unit;
determining whether the change in the load status changes a specimen pickup workflow;
upon identifying that the change in the load status changes the specimen pickup workflow, generating an optimized pickup workflow based on the change in the load status of the vault unit;
wherein in response to the load status changing from the unloaded state to the loaded state, the optimized pickup workflow is generated to include a courier route to a location of the vault unit to pickup the specimen;
wherein in response to the load status changing from the loaded state to the unloaded state, the optimized pickup workflow is generated to remove the courier route to the location of the vault unit;
generating a notification of the optimized pickup workflow at one or more remote computing devices separate from the vault unit; and
transmitting the notification of the optimized pickup workflow to a destination device.