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US 11,774,096 B2Granted
Portable biometric lighter
AssigneeJohn Gibson
InventorJohn Gibson
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Abstract
A portable biometric lighter device (100) generally involving a control unit (210), a biometric sensor, such as a fingerprint sensor (140), wherein the biometric sensor is configured to scan a biometric data of a user and is operably coupled to the control unit (210), and an ignition element, wherein the ignition element is activated by the control unit (210) upon a match of the scanned biometric data of the user and a biometric data of an authorized user that is stored in a memory device.
Claims19
A portable biometric lighter device, comprising:
- a control unit operably coupled to an igniter, the igniter coupled to a flammable power source ignitable upon operation of the igniter;
- a memory device coupled to the control unit and configured to store biometric data including at least one fingerprint of at least one authorized user;
- a push-button configured to activate a gas lever when the push-button is pressed;
- a biometric sensor being operably connected to the control unit and configured to scan a fingerprint of a user;
- a light source configured to provide status of the biometric sensor and to indicate, to the user, that the biometric sensor is ready to scan biometric data of the user;
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- wherein the igniter is configured to ignite the flammable power source to produce a flame in response to being activated by the control unit upon a determination by the control unit that the fingerprint of the user scanned by the biometric sensor matches the biometric data of the authorized user stored in a memory device.
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A biometric system for lighting a flammable power source, comprising:
- a control unit operably coupled to an igniter, the igniter coupled to the flammable power source wherein the flammable power source is ignited upon operation of the igniter;
- a memory device;
- an active switch operably coupled to a biometric sensor, and configured to activate the biometric sensor;
- a gas lever configured to activate the active switch when the gas lever is actuated;
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- a push-button configured to activate the gas lever when the push-button is pressed;
- a light source configured to provide status of the biometric sensor and to indicate, to a user, that the biometric sensor is ready to scan biometric data of the user;
- the biometric sensor operably coupled to the control unit and configured to scan the biometric data of the user and store it on the memory device, wherein in response to the biometric sensor performing a biometric data scan of the user, and the control unit matching the user biometric data to an authorized user biometric data previously stored on the memory device, the control unit operates the igniter, thereby igniting the flammable power source.
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A biometric system for lighting a flammable power source, comprising:
- a control unit operably coupled to an igniter, the igniter coupled to the flammable power source wherein the flammable power source is ignited upon operation of the igniter;
- a memory device;
- a push-button operably coupled to a biometric sensor, and configured to activate the biometric sensor when the push-button is pressed;
- an active switch operably coupled to a gas lever and configured to actuate the gas lever when the active switch is activated by the control unit;
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- a light source configured to provide status of the biometric sensor and to indicate, to a user, that the biometric sensor is ready to scan biometric data of the user;
- the biometric sensor operably coupled to the control unit and configured to scan the biometric data of the user and store it on the memory device, wherein in response to the biometric sensor performing a biometric data scan of the user, and the control unit matching the user biometric data to an authorized user biometric data previously stored on the memory device, the control unit activates the active switch to actuate the gas lever and release the flammable power source, and activates the igniter to ignite the flammable power source.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.