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US 12,667,987 B2Granted
Pocketknife with enhanced safety features
OwnerQuinn Tonneinventor
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Abstract
A pocketknife with enhanced safety features, including a blade, and a handle hingedly connected to the blade at a top portion of the handle, the handle including a blade compartment to receive the blade therein, and a pressure plate disposed on a first side of the handle to release the blade from the blade compartment when the pressure plate is pressed.
Claims3
A pocketknife with enhanced safety features, comprising:
- a blade;
- and
- a handle hingedly connected to the blade at a top portion of the handle, the handle comprising:
- a blade compartment to receive the blade therein,
- a pressure plate disposed on a first side of the handle to release the blade from the blade compartment when the pressure plate is pressed, and
- a central processing unit disposed within the handle and connected to the pressure plate, such that the central processing unit stores a thumb print of a user to recognize the thumb print of the user in response to the user placing a thumb onto the pressure plate, such that the central processing unit controls the blade to be released from the blade compartment in response to the user placing the thumb onto the pressure plate, wherein the user must place the thumb onto the pressure plate for at least three seconds in order to allow the blade to be released from the blade compartment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.