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Systems, devices, and methods for bodily fluid sample transport

  • US 9,386,948 B2
  • Filed: 12/05/2013
  • Issued: 07/12/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • collecting a bodily fluid sample on a surface of a subject, wherein collected sample is stored in one or more sample vessels;

    providing a transport container to house at least two or more sample vessels in a first orientation and holding the vessels in a two-dimensional, non-linear array configuration;

    arranging to have the sample vessels shipped in the transport container from a first location to a second location,wherein each of the sample vessels arrives at the second location holding a majority of its bodily fluid sample in a non-wicked, non-matrixed form that is removable from the sample vessels in liquid form and wherein the amount of sample in each of the sample vessels does not exceed about 2 ml; and

    scanning information storage units on substantially all of the sample vessels from the transport container, wherein the scanning occurs substantially simultaneously while the samples vessels are held in the non-linear array configuration at the second location.

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