Patent ID: 7905075

Claim:
A method of packaging thermally labile goods, comprising: (a) obtaining a thermally insulated container defining a retention chamber; (b) obtaining thermally labile goods to be packaged; (c) obtaining a legend correlating some listed thermally labile goods with a first color and other listed thermally labile goods with a second color; (d) locating the thermally labile goods to be packaged on the legend and identifying the correlated color; (e) selecting thermally conditioned panels containing a phase change material displaying the correlated color from a supply of thermally conditioned panels with some panels containing H 2 O as the phase change material displaying the first color and other panels containing a phase change material other than H 2 O displaying the second color wherein the displayed color corresponds to the phase change temperature of the phase change material contained within the panels; (f)lining the retention chamber with the selected thermally conditioned panels; (g) placing the thermally labile goods to be packaged into the lined retention chamber; and (h) closing the container.