CARLSBAD, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- December 19, 2006 -- GenVault Corporation today announced the US Patent Office has issued US patent #7,142,987 giving GenVault broad rights to dry-state sample archiving, using carriers designed to store dried biosamples as discrete, individually addressable aliquots in a predetermined spatial relationship. This patent allows GenVault broad coverage to exclusively develop and market consumables for dry-state biosample storage, based on individual sample aliquots that are stored, one each, in a container which is in turn assembled in an orderly way with other sample containers to form an assembly. For instance this includes samples stored dry as racks of tubes, or samples stored dry in a 96 or 384 well plate format. The patent also covers the generalized use of hardware for organizing the storage of such dry-state sample aliquots to form sample archives. Finally, the patent covers the generalized use of software to track the location, use history and the data associated with such individually addressable dry-state samples, in the context of organized sample management and archiving.
