GenVaults technology is based on multiple inventions to simplify and reduce the cost of genetic sample management.GenVault was the first to conceive of archives for orderly sample management, based on the storage of discrete bits of material in the dry state.In 2006, a U.S.Patent has been awarded to GenVault to protect the broad concept of orderly, dry-state sample storage and retrieval.Subsequently, GenVault has invented and has pending patent protection for related products: including automated devices to manipulate air-dried DNA samples 384 well plates; GenConnect, a robust sample management software system; GenCode, a chemical bar code that can be used to tag eachair-dried sample internally; GenPlates, which allow for dry-state biological sample storage in 384 well plates; GenSolve, a chemistry that enables the complete release of DNA from dried blood spots on paper or other porous material; and finally, the invention and development of non-paper, dry state storage media based on ceramic nanoparticles, which greatly extends the mass and volume of sample that can be stored in the air-dried state.Those individual technologies will be reviewed here.