US 12,403,071 B2
Storage system and method for storing and transporting medicament
Rey T. Chern, Thousand Oaks, CA (US); Fanghua Mei, Thousand Oaks, CA (US); and Loic Barbedette, Newbury Park, CA (US)
Assigned to AMGEN INC., Thousand Oaks, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/923,688
Filed by AMGEN INC., Thousand Oaks, CA (US)
PCT Filed May 17, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/032668
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 7, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/236477, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/028,875, filed on May 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0172808 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. A61J 1/16 (2023.01); F25D 16/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61J 1/165 (2013.01) [F25D 16/00 (2013.01); F25D 2303/082 (2013.01); F25D 2303/0844 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A storage system for storing a drug, the storage system comprising:
a shipping container including an interior volume;
a drug container including a number of sidewalls, an upper surface, and a lower surface that define an interior volume to accommodate at least one drug, the lower surface including a plurality of transportation openings defined by an opening ceiling, an opening floor surface, and a plurality of opening sidewalls, the plurality of transportation openings dimensioned to receive a lifting member of a forklift, the drug container adapted to be disposed within the shipping container;
at least one passive cooling system selectively disposed within the interior volume of the drug container or at least one of the plurality of transportation openings such that the at least one passive cooling system rests on the opening floor surface thereof, the at least one passive cooling system including a phase change material; and
an active cooling system operably coupled with the shipping container and, when in an operational mode, adapted to maintain a desired temperature within the interior volume of the shipping container.