Laboratory instrumentation information management and control network
CA 2573232 C · Owner: Showalter, Wayne · Inventors: Showalter, Wayne; Larson, Alain L.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
An interface point network (IPN) and a method for communication with a laboratory information system using an IPN wherein the IPN includes at least , one host computer in communication with at least one laboratory instrument the laboratory information system and an interface point server in communication with the host computer and the laboratory information system the interface point server being configured to function as a communication interface between the host computer and the laboratory information system in a manner responsive to a predetermined communication protocol. Use of bar code and RFID labels for tracking samples and in maintaining sample data is described.
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed January 10, 2005 and granted June 21, 2016. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 10, 2025.
- Certificates of supplementary protection extend only drug patents, and it isn't classified as one.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.