US 11,786,617 B2
Device and method for sterilizing and storage of laboratory consumables
Ali Safavi, Richmond, VA (US); and Thomas Patrick Finnigan, Richmond, VA (US)
Assigned to GRENOVA, INC., Richmond, VA (US)
Filed by GRENOVA, INC., Richmond, VA (US)
Filed on Feb. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/174,200.
Application 17/174,200 is a division of application No. 15/863,030, filed on Jan. 5, 2018, granted, now 10,953,118.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/444,863, filed on Jan. 11, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0162082 A1, Jun. 3, 2021
Int. Cl. A61L 2/10 (2006.01); A47L 15/42 (2006.01); F26B 3/02 (2006.01); B08B 7/00 (2006.01); B08B 9/00 (2006.01); F26B 3/04 (2006.01); F26B 3/28 (2006.01); B01L 9/00 (2006.01); F26B 9/06 (2006.01); B01L 3/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61L 2/10 (2013.01) [A47L 15/4242 (2013.01); B01L 9/543 (2013.01); B01L 13/02 (2019.08); B08B 7/0057 (2013.01); B08B 9/00 (2013.01); F26B 3/02 (2013.01); F26B 3/04 (2013.01); F26B 3/283 (2013.01); F26B 9/066 (2013.01); A61L 2202/122 (2013.01); A61L 2202/18 (2013.01); B01L 3/0275 (2013.01); B01L 2200/141 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of sterilizing and storing laboratory consumables, the method comprising:
slidably receiving a carrier holding a plurality of laboratory consumables into each of one or more of a plurality of storage compartments within an interior chamber defined in a housing;
exposing the plurality of laboratory consumables to ultraviolet (UV) light from UV lamps, a UV lamp of the UV lamps positioned above each respective storage compartment and from a UV lamp of the UV lamps positioned below each respective storage compartment;
determining from which of the plurality of storage compartments a carrier should be removed based on for which carrier a longest period of time has elapsed since going through a predefined sterilization procedure; and
indicating to a user into which of the plurality of storage compartments a carrier should be placed or indicating to a user from which of the plurality of storage compartments a carrier should be removed.