US 12,258,212 B2
Robotic processing system
Louis Guarracina, Newburyport, MA (US); and Ulysses Gilchrist, Reading, MA (US)
Assigned to HIGHRES BIOSOLUTIONS, INC., Beverly, MA (US)
Filed by HIGHRES BIOSOLUTIONS, INC., Beverly, MA (US)
Filed on Jun. 20, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/337,894.
Application 18/337,894 is a continuation of application No. 17/362,056, filed on Jun. 29, 2021, granted, now 11,679,933.
Application 17/362,056 is a continuation of application No. 16/265,273, filed on Feb. 1, 2019, granted, now 11,045,811, issued on Jun. 29, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/625,809, filed on Feb. 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0391553 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B65G 1/12 (2006.01); B01L 9/02 (2006.01); B65G 1/06 (2006.01); B65G 1/133 (2006.01); B65G 47/90 (2006.01); B65G 69/28 (2006.01); G01N 35/00 (2006.01); G01N 35/02 (2006.01); G01N 35/04 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 1/12 (2013.01) [B01L 9/02 (2013.01); B65G 1/06 (2013.01); B65G 1/133 (2013.01); B65G 47/905 (2013.01); B65G 69/287 (2013.01); G01N 35/0099 (2013.01); G01N 35/025 (2013.01); G01N 35/04 (2013.01); B65G 2201/02 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile storage array for storing climate controlled process samples in a facility space having different climate sections in the facility space each with different climates at least one of which is a controlled climate other than room habitation climate, the storage array being movable by hand in the facility space to the controlled climate section from another of the different climate sections, the mobile storage array comprising:
a movable frame sized and shaped for hand carting movement relative to the different climate sections having controlled climates therein; and
a storage array, with an array of storage locations for holding process samples therein, movably mounted to and dependent from the movable frame so as to move as a unit with the movable frame, the storage array movable mounting to the movable frame providing the storage array, mounted to the movable frame, a degree of freedom of motion relative to the movable frame.
 
5. A method for storing climate controlled process samples in a facility space, having different climate sections in the facility space each with different climates at least one of which is a controlled climate other than room habitation climate, in a mobile storage array that is movable as a unit in the facility space to the controlled climate section from another of the different climate sections, the method comprising:
providing a frame;
providing a storage carousel, mounted to the frame, that is sized and shaped so that the frame and storage carousel mounted thereto are movable as a unit, the storage carousel defining an array of holder storage racks, each disposed for storage therein of stacked sample holders, removably mounted to and distributed at a storage rack station, each storage rack station with a rack location, of the carousel;
selecting a variable footprint of the storage carousel by selecting a variable total number of the storage rack stations forming the array, where the storage rack stations are selectable between different numbers of more than one total storage rack stations by selectably adding or removing storage rack stations to the array so as to correspondingly increase or decrease the selected total number of storage rack stations from a first total number of the more than one total storage rack stations to a different second total number of the more than one total storage rack stations within a common enclosed perimeter of the storage carousel.