Clever Culture Systems Limited, formerly LBT Innovations Limited, is an Australia-based company that provides intelligent automation solutions to microbiology laboratories. The Company has developed a technology, the Automated Plate Assessment System (APAS Independence), using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning software to automate the imaging, analysis and interpretation of microbiology culture plates. The technology is a United States FDA-cleared AI technology for automated culture plate reading. The product is being sold to microbiology laboratories in the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector for the reading of environmental monitoring culture plates and to clinical laboratories as an in vitro diagnostic for infectious diseases. Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc is the exclusive distributor of the APAS Independence to clinical customers in the United States and selected countries in Europe.